A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
March 30, 1983
Roo Powell (born March 30, 1983) is an American writer and advocate. She was born in Hong Kong, the daughter of Gareth Powell. She is the founder of SOSA, a nonprofit organization focused on the prevention of online child sex abuse and exploitation. In October 2021, it was announced that she and SOSA would be featured in a six-part docuseries, Undercover Underage, which debuted in November 2021 on Discovery+; Season 2 premiered on May 1, 2023.
Creator:
2025 SOSA Undercover
Executive Producer:
2021 Undercover Underage
2025 SOSA Undercover
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.