A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Gillian earned her Bachelor's degree from Kennesaw State University and graduated from the Georgia Film Academy in 2020. She is wrapping up her first year in MICA's Filmmaking MFA program. Her thesis film (to be released in 2022) explores the long history of medical experimentation and exploitation of black bodies, especially women. Her filmmaking idols include Ava DuVernay, Steven Spielberg, and Spike Lee. In her spare time, she likes to read, listen to music, and spend time with her family. Although she hasn’t appeared in any films, if you look closely, you might spot her in a 2001 episode of MTV’s Total Request Live featuring Janet Jackson.
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.