A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Shannon Brown began her career touring the country doing sketch and improv comedy and now lives in Los Angeles, where she writes and directs horror-comedy shorts. She has a passion for blending scares and belly laughs while bringing fun, relatable female characters to life. Most recently, her films were screened at Screamfest, Salem Horror Fest, Horrorhound Weekend, and Final Girls Berlin. Shannon credits her family for nourishing her comedic talent and her Catholic upbringing for her comfort with gore. Her unique brand of dark comedy and flair for the strange has been showcased at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and in online publications such as Reductress, Atlas Obscura, Whohaha, and Rue Morgue. Shannon completed the Sundance Writing Horror for Film & Television intensive in 2023. Her horror-comedy short film, Demon Juice, is now streaming with Screamfest and TromaNow. Shannon’s next short, Overnights, is currently on the festival circuit. Committed to community, Shannon co-hosts a monthly horror filmmaker meetup for women and non-binary creators and a quarterly all-gender event with Anastasia Washington. Much like Shannon herself, the meetups are fun, yet approachable.
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.