A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Ebony Blanding is a writer / director whose work seeks to amplify black women, black people and humanity existing in fullness cinematically. Evaluating representation, tradition and subject matter to develop imaginative dialogues and character studies, Ebony uses film to radically depict worlds through the female experience and perspective. Accepted into Atlanta Film Society’s 2017-2019 Filmmaker-In-Residence Program, WonderRoot’s Hughley 2017-2018 Fellowship Program and AIR Serenbe’s 2019 Artist Fellowship, Blanding received the 2019 Idea Capital Atlanta Grant for her narrative And so they rested, paying homage to Southern motifs and black performance art. In 2020, Blanding was awarded Dream Warriors Foundation 2020 Spark Grant for the Arts and a grant for her short form documentary, The Final Bow, from Southern Documentary Fund. Colorfully crafting scenes meditative in intimacy, Blanding uses moving pictures and narratives as ascensions to glorify black renaissance and believes the complexities and possibilities of blackness portrayed on screen are an artistic act of activism.
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.