A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mara Adina Calugareanu
Birthplace:
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
Born:
June 25, 1985
Mara Adina is a creative producer and co-founder of Vernon Films where her primary focus is to push the boundaries of hybrid filmmaking and collaborate with creative voices who seek to devise new ways of arriving at story. She produced "Counterpart", the first English-language film directed by two time BAFTA winning Adrian Sitaru which opened at Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival 2014. Mara produced Ilinca Calugareanu's debut feature documentary "Chuck Norris vs Communism" which premiered in competition at Sundance 2015. She recently became a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and is currently in production with feature documentary There Was, There Was Not directed by Emily Mkrtichian (supported by the Sundance Institute), in development with "A Private Wild" directed by Christopher LaMarca (supported by the Sundance Institute) and "Heisenbug" written and directed by Ilinca Calugareanu (supported by the SFFilms).
Line Producer:
2015 Chuck Norris vs Communism
Producer:
2015 Chuck Norris vs Communism
2017 Erica - Man Made
2023 A Cautionary Tale
2024 There Was, There Was Not
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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.