A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Kristie Anne Jeffries
Viola Voltairine
Birthplace:
Kansas City, Kansas, USA
Born:
October 20, 1972
Kristie Alshaibi changed her name to Viola Voltairine in 2021. Viola has participated in many illicit occupations to support her artistic habits, from being the program director of the Z Film Festival and festival director of the 72 Hour Feature Project in Chicago to running a commercial BDSM studio/art space and later becoming a kink educator for in-person and on-line workshops. Voltairine founded the production company Artvamp in 2000, and has since produced a number of award-winning feature films. These include the experimental narrative film Profane, which won Best Feature at the Boston Underground Film Festival and Best Film of the Year in the Underground Film Journal, as well as the Creative Capital award-winning documentary Nice Bombs, shot in Baghdad a few months after the beginning of U.S. occupation. Her work has appeared on the Sundance Channel, and many of the films she has worked on have gotten international distribution and been shown in festivals and on television around the world. For her short films, she has received grants from the Princess Grace Foundation and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. She was given a full merit scholarship to the School of the Art Institute Chicago where she received her Master's degree in Film and Video.
Co-Producer:
2003 Muhammad and Jane
Director:
2000 Crying
2001 Slaughtered Pigtails
2003 Muhammad and Jane
2004 Other People's Mirrors
2007 Signal Cross Over
2008 Looking at Clouds
Editor:
2000 Crying
2001 Slaughtered Pigtails
2003 Muhammad and Jane
2003 The Amateurs
2004 Other People's Mirrors
2007 Signal Cross Over
2008 Looking at Clouds
Producer:
2000 Crying
2001 Slaughtered Pigtails
2002 Soak
2003 Muhammad and Jane
2003 The Amateurs
2004 Other People's Mirrors
2007 Signal Cross Over
2008 Looking at Clouds
2011 Profane
Screenplay:
2000 Crying
2001 Slaughtered Pigtails
2002 Soak
2003 Muhammad and Jane
2003 The Amateurs
2004 Other People's Mirrors
2007 Signal Cross Over
2008 Looking at Clouds
2011 Profane
Stunts:
2000 Crying
2001 Slaughtered Pigtails
2002 Soak
2003 Muhammad and Jane
2003 The Amateurs
2004 Convulsion Expulsion
2004 Other People's Mirrors
2007 Signal Cross Over
2008 Looking at Clouds
2011 Profane
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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.