A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Petr Sís
Petra Síse
Birthplace:
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Born:
May 11, 1949
Peter Sís is a Czech-born American illustrator and writer of children's books. As a cartoonist his editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, and The Atlantic Monthly. In 2012 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his "lasting contribution" as an illustrator of children's literature.
Animation:
1975 Mimicry
2008 Velvet and the Walk
Art Direction:
1975 Mimicry
1977 Island for 6,000 Alarm Clocks
1980 The Heads
1982 Players
2008 Velvet and the Walk
Character Designer:
1975 Mimicry
1977 Island for 6,000 Alarm Clocks
1980 The Heads
1982 Players
2008 Velvet and the Walk
Director:
1975 Mimicry
1977 Island for 6,000 Alarm Clocks
1980 The Heads
1982 Players
2008 Velvet and the Walk
Screenplay:
1975 Mimicry
1977 Island for 6,000 Alarm Clocks
1980 The Heads
1982 Players
2008 Velvet and the Walk
Story:
1975 Mimicry
1977 Island for 6,000 Alarm Clocks
1980 The Heads
1982 Players
2008 Velvet and the Walk
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.