A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Born:
July 7, 1973
Rick resides in Vancouver, BC, having spent the last three decades working in the entertainment industry following a BFA in Theatre Arts from Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. In the past decade, Rick has created and written original feature films, shorts, TV and multimedia content in various stages of development, production and distribution. He was selected for Canada's National Screen Institute (NSI) Totally Television Program and was awarded screenplay funding from Telefilm. Aside from coaching over 100 professional actors and writers in Vancouver, Shanghai and Los Angeles, he has also served as Director of Media and Publicity for the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, produced and directed Jessie Award winning and nominated theatre productions, garnered supporting actor Gemini and Leo nominations as well as a win for "Godiva's", and also thrived on building a vast network of relationships with top-notched talent across North America and Asia. He assisted Roland Emmerich (Executive Producer/Writer/Director), on Sony Pictures' recent worldwide blockbuster "2012". An Actor/Writer/Producer for Film, TV, multimedia as well as Theatre, Rick works as Acting Mentor/Instructor/Owner/Head of Creative for Skycorner Academy and Skycorner Productions inc.
Associate Producer:
2009 Waiting 4 Goliath
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.