A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
New York, New York
Born:
April 9, 1984
Katherine Louise Black was born in New York City, April 9, 1984 and raised in the Westchester Suburbs. She has a Bachelor's degree in Theater and Drama with a Dance minor from Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont in 2007. She is currently studying at Penny Templeton Studio where she has completed the Advanced On Camera and Script Analysis classes and is presently taking Penny Templeton's Master Class. Katherine has a speech disability but acting has helped her overcome this obstacle. "When I get adjustments in class or during rehearsal, it enables me to transcend the challenges when I am on stage or in front of the camera." She loves to immerse herself in her roles and explore the character's process. She is also an experienced dancer and has performed with various dance groups. She says, "When I dance, it feels like I am performing sign language with movement so people can understand the story." Since 2010, she has been focused more on her acting training.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.