A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Rafaella Biscayn is a Paris born actress & producer with Italian/Venezuelan heritage. Her love for acting and movies came from being on set at a young age; her parents worked in the TV and Movie industry. She started singing at the tender age of five, followed with playing the violin at six, theater groups and dancing ballet at the age of seven. She then started doing voice-overs, later leading to recording of a music demo sponsored by Universal Music France when she was only 8 years old. That was the time her family relocated to the US. It was here she furthered her passion for acting, singing, booking opera recitals and working on short films, indies, commercials, TV shows and hosting shows. She is also the young author (published at 14) of reality novel Call 911 on 9/11 at 9:11 available online at Amazon and in local bookstores around Miami. She has worked with numerous September 11 non-profit organizations in the years following 2001. She attended UCLA for both her Bachelors and continued with completing the prestigious Producing Program at UCLA's TV & Film School, headed by Tom Nunan. In Commercials, she has worked with clients such as Apple, McDonald's, FORD, Honda, Nokia, KFC, Caesar's Palace, FOX, A&E, MTV, Univision... as well as acted in shorts, indies, TV episodes & a lot of fun commercials! Her favorite one is her "Nespresso" National with George Clooney & Danny Devito which aired for a year in a half. Spot her out as Cleopatra! In 2020, she started working with producers Mark Canton & Courtney Solomon on the adult-animated TV Show "The Freak Brothers" which is now in its Season 2, premiering June 25th 2023. She also just completed a trilogy of horror films for Lionsgate, based upon the original 2008 movie "The Strangers," now directed by Renny Harlin, starring Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez & Gabriel Basso. Her love for books and reading at a young age has come useful, pitching many properties to be optioned and currently developed into TV & Movie projects, ranging across a multitude of different genres.
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.