A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Crescentia Mello
Birthplace:
San Mateo, California, USA
Born:
June 5, 1978
Crescentia was born in San Mateo, California, but soon moved to Washington State where she spent her childhood. Crescentia loved to dance and completed 5 years of tap/ballet/jazz classes at Dancing for Joy (Joy Ozier). Her interest in costumes was encouraged by her mother (Beverly Gorman), who made costumes for the recitals. When her parents divorced she moved with her mother and sisters to the Imperial Valley in California, then to Redlands, California through her middle school years. Crescentia graduated high school in Clintonville, WI, where she received an academic letter and numerous medals for her accomplishments on the school forensics (speech & drama) team. After graduation, Crescentia attended Mt. Mary College in Milwaukee, WI where she studied fashion design. She later accepted an internship at Contemporary Designs (Jacqueline Marusic) in Tacoma, WA where she learned more about garment construction and millinery. After her internship, Crescentia relocated to Dubuque, IA. In 2007 Crescentia graduated from Madison Media Institute (Madison, WI) with a degree in Video and Motion Graphics, and then moved briefly to the East Coast to York, PA. After returning to Dubuque Crescentia got involved in the Great River Film Initiative, a group that encourages and supports local film making. She has participated in the production of many short films and projects, and the feature film, Easton's Article (2010). In 2011 Crescentia had a lead role in the stage production of Recent Tragic Events where she played Joyce/Nancy. She also has contributed many hours of design, decorating, and acting to the haunted attraction Dark Chambers in Dubuque. Also in 2011 Crescentia officially opened Gotta Give 'Em Props, a prop rental house, to serve film and stage productions in Dubuque. Crescentia is married with three beautiful children.
Director:
2017 Black Friday
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Executive Producer:
2017 Black Friday
2024 Are You Dead Yet?
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Location Scout:
2017 Black Friday
2024 Are You Dead Yet?
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Production Design:
2017 Black Friday
2024 Are You Dead Yet?
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Script Editor:
2017 Black Friday
2024 Are You Dead Yet?
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Set Dressing Artist:
2012 Easton's Article
2017 Black Friday
2024 Are You Dead Yet?
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Storyboard:
2012 Easton's Article
2017 Black Friday
2024 Are You Dead Yet?
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Storyboard Artist:
2012 Easton's Article
2017 Black Friday
2024 Are You Dead Yet?
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Supervising Film Editor:
2012 Easton's Article
2017 Black Friday
2024 Are You Dead Yet?
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Writer:
2012 Easton's Article
2017 Black Friday
2024 Are You Dead Yet?
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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.