A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Lisa Rideout is an award-winning director who makes character-driven films focused on women who have forged their paths outside of societal norms. She has directed content for NETFLIX, CRAVE, the CBC and VICE. Alongside Banger Films and Corus Entertainment, Lisa directed and produced the documentary feature Sex with Sue about renowned sex expert Sue Johanson, which won the 2023 Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Program and played at multiple festivals including Big Sky Documentary Festival, Raindance and Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. She previously directed on Netflix’s series This is Pop with Banger Films. Her films have garnered multiple Oscar-qualifying awards, including Best Short Documentary at the LA Film Festival, Best Documentary Short at the Brooklyn Film Festival, the Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Short and a Grand Prize at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Lisa founded her production company, Lifted Eyes Media, in 2013. She is currently represented by Meridian.
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.