A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Thomas Ash received his MA in Film and Television Production from the University of Bristol. His first feature-length documentary, THE BALLAD OF VICKI AND JAKE (2006), was internationally acclaimed. Himself a US citizen, he has been living in Japan since 2004. His films have focused on issues surrounding the healthcare system, death, and illness.
Camera Operator:
2013 A2-B-C
2019 Sending Off
Cinematography:
2013 A2-B-C
2019 Sending Off
2021 Ushiku
Director:
2005 The Ballad of Vicki and Jake
2013 A2-B-C
2014 -1287
2019 Sending Off
2019 The Father's Love Begotten
2021 Ushiku
Producer:
2005 The Ballad of Vicki and Jake
2013 A2-B-C
2014 -1287
2017 Boys for Sale
2019 Sending Off
2019 The Father's Love Begotten
2021 Ushiku
Writer:
2005 The Ballad of Vicki and Jake
2013 A2-B-C
2014 -1287
2017 Boys for Sale
2019 Sending Off
2019 The Father's Love Begotten
2021 Ushiku
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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.