A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Born:
December 16, 1967
Prior to directing “18½,” award-winning filmmaker and author Dan Mirvish made the critically-acclaimed features "Bernard and Huey," "Between Us," "Open House" and "Omaha (the movie)." He's the author of "The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking" (Focal Press/Routledge), frequent film school guest lecturer and cofounder of the Slamdance Film Festival. A graduate of USC film school, Dan was also a U.S. Senate speechwriter and journalist.
Director:
1995 Omaha (The Movie)
2001 Open House
2004 Open House
2012 Between Us
2018 Bernard and Huey
2022 18½
Producer:
1995 Omaha (The Movie)
2001 Open House
2004 Open House
2012 Between Us
2018 Bernard and Huey
2022 18½
Screenplay:
1995 Omaha (The Movie)
2001 Open House
2004 Open House
2012 Between Us
2018 Bernard and Huey
2022 18½
Writer:
1995 Omaha (The Movie)
2001 Open House
2002 Threat of Exposure
2004 Open House
2012 Between Us
2018 Bernard and Huey
2022 18½
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.