A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Porto, Portugal
Francisco Vilar is an emerging pianist from Porto, Portugal, known for his expressive playing style and captivating stage presence. He is currently studying as a Konzertexamen student under Professor Mi-Joo Lee at the Berlin University of the Arts. Francisco graduated with First Class honors from the Royal College of Music in London and has performed as a soloist with various orchestras in Europe, playing piano concertos by composers like Rachmaninoff and Grieg. He has received guidance from renowned pianists and participated in masterclasses with Angela Hewitt. Francisco is also active in chamber music and collaborates with emerging musicians. He is the founder of the "Concertos de Outono – Ciclo Clássico" festival and enjoys interdisciplinary projects, including film collaborations and upcoming performances with dancers and visual artists. He plans to record his debut album, exploring Impressionistic and Late-Romantic repertoire.
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.