A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
베르너 두 플레시스
Born:
May 14, 1986
Werner du Plessis, a talented writer hailing from Pretoria, South Africa, has showcased an outstanding ability for both poetry and prose. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from The South African School of Motion Picture Medium, specializing in Directing, Screenwriting, and Editing. Later, he pursued a Master of Arts degree in Digital Media Content from Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, during which he also completed the Harvard Documentary Film Program. He furthered his studies in Los Angeles, where he completed the UCLA Screenwriting Program and established himself as a highly sought-after script editor among major productions in Seoul, South Korea. In March of 2023, du Plessis's exceptional talents culminated in the release of his directorial debut in partnership with Inu Baek, The Eighth Sense: The Series (2023), and accompanying film. The production was celebrated for its visually stunning aesthetics and nuanced treatment of complex themes. It garnered critical acclaim from both audiences and critics alike, solidifying du Plessis's position as a masterful storyteller.
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.