A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Maria Ulfsak
Maria Ulfsak-Sheripova
Birthplace:
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Born:
May 19, 1981
Maria Ulfsak-Šeripova (born on May 19, 1981 in Tallinn) is an Estonian film journalist and critic. She graduated from Tartu University in 2003, majoring in journalism and public relations. Graduated with an MA in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick, England. She works as a film editor for Eesti Ekspress and as an editor and co-author of the publication Estonian Film. She is the compiler of Baltic Event programs for the film and co-production market, has participated in several expert groups and the FIPRESCI jury of international film festivals. Member of the Estonian Film Journalists' Association, elected film journalist of the year 2016 and 2021. Her father was actor and director Lembit Ulfsak and her half-brother is actor and director Juhan Ulfsak.
Public Relations:
2007 186 Kilometers
2009 The Temptation of St. Tony
2011 Farts of Fury
2011 The Idiot
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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.