A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Originally from Mission, Texas, Beto’s interest in public policy and government was shaped by growing up along the U.S./Mexico border as the son of immigrant parents. Beto currently holds the position of CEO & Co-founder of Irys Technologies, which has recently expanded by acquiring Diversified Technical Services Inc. (DTSI), one of San Antonio’s oldest and most reputable cybersecurity and information technology firms. Under his leadership, Irys Technologies, founded in 2017, has developed impactful government technology tools, including the City of San Antonio 311 App, which has significantly improved the lives of thousands of residents in our city.
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.