A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Dilakshan Akalanka Ekanayake
Birthplace:
Kandy, Sri Lanka
Born:
April 20, 2000
Dilakshan Akalanka Ekanayake better known as "Akalanka Ekanayake", born on April 20, 2000, is a well-known music editor and programmer from Sri Lanka. He has worked on many notable projects, including France (2021), Crimes of the Future, and Hacker (2019). Akalanka is the first Sri Lankan security researcher to be acknowledged by many major companies, including Apple Inc, DJI, Envato Inc, Amazon, and many other international companies and organizations. He has always had a passion for web applications and computer security since owning his first computer as a child and now boasts over five years of experience working in cyber security. In additionally he has worked on developing applications, penetration testing, software development, and programming. When not at his computer, you can find He’s listening to his favorite music and traveling the world with friends and family documenting their travels by vlogging.
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.