A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines
Rey Anthony Villaverde is a contemporary visual artist, writer, and filmmaker hailing from Zamboanga del Norte. Starting his journey in filmmaking at a young age with student films, he has become a passionate advocate for independent cinema, aiming to inspire the next generation of filmmakers. Despite the distance from major film studios, Villaverde actively promotes regional filmmaking on prestigious national platforms like Cinema Rehiyon and Cinemalaya. Since 2022, he has been a prominent figure in his local film community, earning accolades such as Best Film and Best Director at the Dipolog Film Festival and SineNorte Film Festival. Recently, he was recognized as a finalist at the 20th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.
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.