A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Gabi Salazar is a Mexican-American born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They have been acting since they were 16 years old, and have successfully made a career through local Grand Rapids theaters. They are known for their work on The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Carrie the Musical at Pyramid Scheme (Betka-Pope Productions) and Collective Rage: A Play of Five Betties at Actors Theater Grand Rapids. Gabi had their first short film debut with playing the supporting role of Aliyah in the short film Volador (2024, Rice Pictures). Salazar had their first on screen debut while playing the supporting role of Aliyah in ‘Volador’ (2024). They are also known by a musician alias Giza was Here. Gabi debuted Giza was Here at Grand Rapids Woodstock Festival 2023, a local transgender mutual aid benefit, where they were chosen to be 1 of 15 artists performing out of 60 applications. They were also selected to perform at the Grand Rapids Pride Festival in summer 2024.
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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.