A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Mia is an NYC-based director who works in multimedia from theater and live arts to film/tv and audio. She was selected as TV Directing Fellow by the Drama League, for which she shadowed Director/ Executive Producer Tom Verica on the Shondaland/ ABC show "For The People," and is currently developing a new musical digital series. Broadway/National Tour credits include: Associate Director, "Jagged Little Pill"; Tour Director, "Finding Neverland" and "Pippin"; Assistant Director, "Waitress "(music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles), "The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess." B.A. Harvard University, Concentration in Film Studies and Production (Magna C. Laude, John Harvard Scholar, Louis Sudler Prize Talent in the Arts for Directing, Women’s Leadership Award, Carol Pforzheimer Fellowship). At Harvard, Mia founded "On Harvard Time," the first student-run digital TV news station.
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.