A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Grace Hanna is a student Emmy and DGA winner known for blending genre filmmaking with rich world-building and finding magic in the mundane. Their films have screened at top festivals including AFI Fest, Fantasia, LAAPFF, FilmQuest, and Indy Shorts, where they won the Directorial Debut Award. Their work has been supported by Imagine Entertainment, Adobe, and The Film Zone through the From Minutes to Movies Shortfest. Grace’s latest project, "Halcyon Days," is sponsored by Film Independent and received Panavision’s NFP Grant. They’re a member of the Gold House Creator Network and the Alliance of Women Directors, with work shortlisted by Disney, Sundance Sloan, and Sony. They received the Loreen Arbus Scholarship from the Television Academy Foundation for "Lola," a film exploring Alzheimer’s through a magical, sci-fi lens.
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.