A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Carrie Loring, known as the Kinder and Prep Choir Conductor and former host of TV Ontario's "Polka Dot Door," has embarked on nationwide children's show tours, showcasing talents in storytelling, mime, guitar, and puppetry. Armed with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and singing certificates from the Royal Conservatory of Music, she's a notable vocalist, prominently with groups like Tafelmusik, Elmer Iseler Singers, and Elora Singers. Her impressive repertoire includes singing for film, television, and contributing to 25 CD recordings. Beyond performing, Carrie instructs privately and contributes to BCC’s Virtual Voices program, sharing her expertise in singing.
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.