A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Taihape, New Zealand
Born:
January 1, 1949
Helene Wong is a New Zealand actress and writer. She is a graduate in Sociology from Victoria University of Wellington. She first worked in Public Service, becoming social policy adviser to Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon in 1978. Her career took a different turn in the mid-1980s as she began working as a theatre actor and director before moving into film and television. She was appointed as the first script development executive in the NZ Film Commission, then worked as a freelance script consultant. In 1995, she wrote and directed the television documentary Footprints of the Dragon for the series An Immigrant Nation. The following year, she became a film critic with the New Zealand Listener. In 2016, she published the memoir Being Chinese.
Director:
1995 An Immigrant Nation
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.