A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Marcello Ferrara is a graduate of McGill University in Literature and Urban Geography. He has a strong interest in community development and the use of new media to advance community development objectives. He is a published poet and writer and has worked as a communications specialist for the international design organization IFI, the International Federation of Interior Designers. He is the principal of And Others, a community development and production company and has worked with refugees in Greece, using participatory video practices to tell their stories as part of the community development process.
Director:
2017 Future Ways of Living
2018 Living in a Global Village
Editor:
2017 Future Ways of Living
2018 Living in a Global Village
2021 This is Ballet: Dancing Anne of Green Gables
Writer:
2017 Future Ways of Living
2018 Living in a Global Village
2021 This is Ballet: Dancing Anne of Green Gables
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.