A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Sidney Edwards is an actress (AEA), singer, dancer, and director based in Los Angeles, California. She has a BFA in Musical Theater from William Peace University and an MFA in Acting from the University of Louisville. She received the Distinguished Actor award at the 2018 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her performance in Miss Ida B. Wells, performed at the National Black Theatre Festival in Kirsten Greenidge's Baltimore, and toured with Missoula Children's Theater. Favorite credits include Amneris in Aida (Karamu House Theatre, Cleveland OH), Sally Bowles in Cabaret (Legget Theatre, Raleigh NC), and Squeak in The Color Purple (Justice Theatre Project, Raleigh NC). She was a teaching artist at The Cleveland Play House and the Karamu House Theater, and has served as Theater Faculty at Baldwin Wallace and The University of Louisville, where she was the Director of the African American Theater Program.
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.