A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Yasmein Ziyad is a native of Atlanta, GA. She is the middle child out of five siblings, and has been performing since she was a small child. While in high school, she played Juliet in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", also landing the lead role in "That was One." Yasmein has studied and worked as a professional actress for over 8 years, studying under the direction of Atlanta's best instructors. Since then she has worked on a number of independent productions to include: "Harvest", "World Wide Deception", "A Rose Thru Cancer", and "N.V." In 2009, she landed her first theatre production in World Changers "Christmas in Cambridge". She was also co-star in the hit stage play at the 14th Street Playhouse "The Eyes of The Storm". In 2012 she was nominated for Best Female Actress in the 48 Hour Film Festival for her leading role in "The Chamber". Yasmein Ziyad is studying under GregAlan Williams of Actors BreakThrough Studio, where she has become skilled in Acting for Film and Television, Sitcom Workshop with Mary Lou Belli, On Camera Combat Basics with Gus Williams, and Script Analysis. She has also trained with Tarsha Smith where she discovered the Ivana Chubbuck Technique, and Improv with Brent Brooks at Blank Stage Studios. In 2012 Yasmein wrote and starred in her first production "N.V.".
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.