A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Kirsi Tykkylainen
Birthplace:
Pieksämäki, Finland
Born:
August 28, 1949
Kirsi Tykkyläinen (born August 28, 1949 in Pieksämäki) is a former Finnish diplomat and international filmmaker. Tykkyläinen grew up in a teacher family in Pieksämäki. After studying Russian, she worked at the University of Helsinki at the Russian Language and Literature in 1975-1983 and then as Head of International Affairs at the Finnish Film Foundation. Between 2002 and 2006, he served as a cultural council at the Embassy of Finland in Moscow and was then invited to lead the Moscow Film Festival for 2007-2009. Head of the St. Petersburg Institute in Finland, he worked for 2011-2012. Kirsi Tykkyläinen's daughter is actor Maria Järvenhelmi. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.