A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Heather Brittain O'Scanlon
Heather is an award-winning actress and filmmaker. Credits include Blue Bloods (CBS), Tom's Dilemma, a feature produced by the Sundance award-winning Darren Dean ("The Florida Project", "Tangerine"), and the Vimeo Staff Pick "At The End Of The Cul-De-Sac", a Paul Trillo film which was featured in TIME Magazine and premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Heather is President of Via Mantra Productions, an independent film production company. Via Mantra's latest film is the 1970's thriller Victim No. 6 starring Heather, alongside Russ Russo ("Catch Hell", "An Act of War"), which has won numerous awards, and several Best Actress awards for Heather, including a Best Performance award from Kevin Smith at his inaugural Smodcastle Film Festival. Next up for Heather & Via Mantra are two feature films; Big Enzo's Wedding and Haunting Skies, both of which are in development. Heather is a member of SAG-AFTRA, she is Vice-Chair of the board of directors for the Garden State Film Festival, New Jersey's Premier Independent Film Festival, and is a member of New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT) as well as Women in Media. Heather is also the founder of Film Festival Insider.
Producer:
2021 Victim No. 6
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.