A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Lowam Eyasu immigrated from Eritrea to Barstow, CA, with her parents and siblings when she was 2 years old. At 17 she attended California State University Long Beach. She received a BA in performance and has studied viewpoints under Jeff Perry and Alexander Billings at Steppenwolf Theatre West. Lowam’s passion for TV and entertainment eventually drove her to not only act but write and produce her own content. A tenacious and confident actor, Lowam left college to pursue her career. After living in Los Angeles and New York, she learned that the industry wasn’t quite representing her or woman like her. In result of the misrepresentation she started the production company VKTRY Creative with two of her childhood friends. VKTRY focuses on creating narrative content for women, women of color and other underrepresented communities. She is passionate about advancing narratives that stand to uphold the uniquely individual stories that are seldom told. Lowam has produced over 10 projects, including writing two feature films with VKTRY.
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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.