A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Hu Yan Yan
Yanyan Hu
Birthplace:
Chongqing, China
Born:
February 28, 1999
Hy Yanyan is a Chinese actress who graduated from the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Opera with a major in film and television performance. In her sophomore year, she participated in the seven-month casting process of the emerging director Ding Yu and was casted in director Ding Yu's independent film debut "Closer", and thus entered the entertainment industry. In September 2023, she was nominated for the Best Actress in a Foreign Language Film at the Nice International Film Festival in France for "Closer".
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.