A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Palo Alto, California, USA
Born:
July 25, 1998
Aditya Vempaty is a Los Angeles and San Francisco based Indian-American writer, director, and entrepreneur. Born and raised in the Silicon Valley of Northern California, Aditya's films are reflective of his identity and upbringing; persistent health problems led to great estrangement and an inability to live to his immigrant family's expectations. Being an artist amongst the children of the great Indian diaspora, Aditya first found film as a sensitive form of expression and reconciliation within his strict and unforgiving community. Finding his voice while attending the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Aditya now hopes to contribute to film as a medium for understanding and healing between generations and sects. With his voice, Aditya aims to reflect on the lasting implications of the clash between East and West through his Indian-American perspective and visual language.
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.