A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Judy Lieff is a filmmaker, educator, and co-owner of New Day Films - a filmmaker-run distribution company providing social issue documentaries to educators since 1971. Her first feature documentary, Deaf Jam, premiered on the PBS series Independent Lens and has been featured at major festivals worldwide. Judy has documented dance and other performance events in New York City for over a decade. She also worked as a motion capture performer/choreographer, and as a stop-motion performer/choreographer on projects including Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Pat O'Neil's The Decay of Fiction.
Director:
1997 Duties of My Heart
2011 Deaf Jam
Editor:
1997 Duties of My Heart
2011 Deaf Jam
Producer:
1997 Duties of My Heart
2011 Deaf Jam
Assistant Editor:
1992 HBO First Look
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.