A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Yifan earned her Bachelor's degree from Brown University and will earn her MFA in Illustration Practice from MICA in Spring 2021. She designed the official poster, promotional materials, and the electronic press kit (EPK) for "Dreams Of My Father." She is also a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and earned the ICON11 Young Professional Award in 2020. Yifan’s personal interests include visual journalism, storytelling, intersectional environmentalism, fitness, plant-based cooking, and bullet journaling, among many others! Her art is heavily inspired by pop culture and the moments in everyday life, from the mundane to the monumental. Her contemporary artistic influences include Julia Rothman, Wendy MacNaughton, and Cannaday Chapman, among others.
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.