A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Whit Kunschik was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is of Native American, Czechoslovakian and Swedish descent. Raised in a small town with her mother, step-father, and two sisters, her love for film began at a young age when she received her first video camera at the age of 11, piquing her curiosity into filmmaking. She excelled in arts and and athletics, and received a scholarship to play college basketball and would later transfer to the University of Central Oklahoma where she studied Broadcasting and minored in History of Film. Upon graduating she relocated to New York where she studied Meisner Technique and worked on various music videos, commercials, and short films. She has since relocated to Los Angeles and studies at the Bojesse Christopher Truth Be told Actors Collective, a studio where a select group of emerging and notable actors come together each week, surrendering to emotional journey into self discovery, while experimenting with the combined components of Stanislavski's Preparation of Building a Character along with Meisner's Repetition Exercise.
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.