A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Theo Hearst has been surrounded by art from a very early age, and has been making art in one form or another his entire life. His work includes paintings, collages/mixed media, sculpture, photography, poetry, acting, and film making. His passion for art came in part from his father, a well-known and highly respected curator of 20th century and contemporary art. From a very young age, Theo was afforded the unique opportunity to experience art around the world, while his father studied and worked in world-class cities like New York, Tokyo, Venice, Philadelphia, Berkeley and Bern. This culturally rich childhood and adolescence, in which virtually every dinner table conversation centered on museums and art, led Theo to Ithaca College, where he took several drama classes and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Sculpture in 1995. He then interned at the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York City. Also, from 1999 to 2008, he attended the HB Studio & The Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
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.