A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Sydney Alessandra Lovering
Birthplace:
Idaho, USA
Born in 2007, Sydney Alessandra Lovering showed an interest in performing from the time she could move and speak. She began singing, dancing and performing for family and friends (and strangers!) little vignettes, songs and shows she would create. It would not be unusual to find her at the base of Warm Springs lodge asking the local apres-ski band if she could join them on stage, offering up her charm and enthusiasm as an additional singer or dancer. When she was just four years old, she performed with the Sun Valley, Idaho Summer Stages, nexStage Theatre troupe as the youngest performer and she radiated happiness and joy. That was it. She had the bug. For the next several years, her mother tried to interest her in other pursuits, hoping to shield her from the rejection and long odds, but she eventually relented and with her family's full support, Sydney began again. Sydney's dream is to live and work in Hollywood and with her family's support, her talent and determination, she will!
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.