A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Blue is a film director living in Los Angeles. Her recent short film, Otis’ Dream, was shared by Oprah as part of her SuperSoul Sunday programming and gained attention from major media outlets. Blue has directed commercials for major brands such as Walgreens, 7UP, Scotch-Brite, Meiomi Wine, Chipotle, Intelligentsia, LOEWE and more, but her talent shines in the work she’s done with organizations such as The Boys & Girls Clubs, GE Girls, Lincoln Park Community Services, which won a Silver Telly, and recently a piece for Chicago Connected which was shared by President Barack Obama and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Her first feature film, Dawn Dusk will be premiering at the American Documentary Film Festival, in Palm Springs, March, 2024. Her empathy and knack for sensing people’s motivations draws out real stories, emotions, and makes characters come to life.
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.