A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Leena Manimekalai is an independent filmmaker, poet and an actor. Her works include five published poetry anthologies and a dozen films in genres, documentary, fiction and experimental poem films. She has been recognised with participation, mentions and best film awards in many international and national film festivals.
Co-Producer:
2019 Maadathy
Director:
2007 Goddesses
2011 Sengadal
2012 My Mirror is the Door
2015 White Van Stories
2017 Is It Too Much to Ask?
2017 The Sunshine
2019 Maadathy
2022 Kaali
???? Dhanya
Producer:
2007 Goddesses
2011 Sengadal
2012 My Mirror is the Door
2015 White Van Stories
2017 Is It Too Much to Ask?
2017 The Sunshine
2019 Maadathy
2022 Kaali
???? Dhanya
Screenplay:
2007 Goddesses
2011 Sengadal
2012 My Mirror is the Door
2015 White Van Stories
2017 Is It Too Much to Ask?
2017 The Sunshine
2019 Maadathy
2022 Kaali
???? Dhanya
Story:
2007 Goddesses
2011 Sengadal
2012 My Mirror is the Door
2015 White Van Stories
2017 Is It Too Much to Ask?
2017 The Sunshine
2019 Maadathy
2022 Kaali
???? Dhanya
Writer:
2007 Goddesses
2011 Sengadal
2012 My Mirror is the Door
2015 White Van Stories
2017 Is It Too Much to Ask?
2017 The Sunshine
2019 Maadathy
2022 Kaali
???? Dhanya
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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.