A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
July 15, 2003
Samuel Rafael is a communication student at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, graduated from the National Preparatory School #9 with specialized technical studies in architecture and has studies in costume design from the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA). In the industry he works as artistic director. He is a member of the Cecehachero Film Fest - UNAM CCH International Film Festival since the fifth edition, currently he is 1AD and AC in the festival. Within the framework of FICUNAM11, he was the winner of the first Honorable Mention in the 11th FOSFÓRO Film Critics Contest in the UNAM upper secondary student section. He recently won the Best Art Direction award at the SMARTFILMS Cell Phone Film Festival for his work on the short film “Destino Liminal” (Adonaí Montalvo, 2022).
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.