A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
سامر جبر
Birthplace:
Jordan
A Jordanian director and broadcaster. He holds a BA in Drama and Film Production from Yarmouk University, a filmmaking certificate from the London Film Academy in Britain, and a Master's degree in Media Leadership Management from the Robert F. Kennedy School of Government (University of Cumbria, Switzerland). He has also won numerous awards for his drama and television productions. He has produced over 100 television films and documentaries, and his productions have been filmed in more than 50 countries around the world. He directed the first drama production for the BeIN Channels network, featuring a group of drama stars from Qatar and other Arab countries. He worked for a period as a children's program presenter, then moved into directing. His most notable works include "Timur" and "My Brothers and I."
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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.