A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Daresha Kyi is currently in post-production on the feature doc Black Voters Matter. In 2018 she was commissioned by the ACLU to direct Trans in America: Texas Strong, which garnered over 3.5 million views online, premiered at SXSW, won two Webby Awards and an Emmy for “Outstanding Short Documentary.” In 2017 she co-directed the feature doc Chavela.
Director:
1988 The Thinnest Line
1991 Land Where My Fathers Died
2017 Chavela
2018 Trans in America: Texas Strong
2022 Mama Bears
2024 Battleground Georgia
Producer:
1988 The Thinnest Line
1991 Land Where My Fathers Died
2017 Chavela
2018 Trans in America: Texas Strong
2022 Mama Bears
2024 Battleground Georgia
2024 One Person, One Vote?
Unit Production Manager:
1988 The Thinnest Line
1991 Land Where My Fathers Died
1995 A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
2017 Chavela
2018 Trans in America: Texas Strong
2022 Mama Bears
2024 Battleground Georgia
2024 One Person, One Vote?
Writer:
1988 The Thinnest Line
1991 Land Where My Fathers Died
1995 A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
2017 Chavela
2018 Trans in America: Texas Strong
2022 Mama Bears
2024 Battleground Georgia
2024 One Person, One Vote?
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.