A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Katja Esson is a German-American filmmaker based in Miami, Florida. She was born and raised in Germany. Her documentary Ferry Tales received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2004. She is the only female German filmmaker ever nominated for a documentary at the Academy Awards.
Additional Camera:
2011 Skydancer
Creative Producer:
2011 Skydancer
2017 Ohero:kon - Under the Husk
Director:
2003 Ferry Tales
2006 Hole in the Sky - The Scars of 9/11
2010 Hooker, Harlot, Whore, Stories of Prostitution
2011 Skydancer
2014 Sur les Gratte-Ciel de New York
2017 Ohero:kon - Under the Husk
2023 Razing Liberty Square
Producer:
2003 Ferry Tales
2006 Hole in the Sky - The Scars of 9/11
2010 Hooker, Harlot, Whore, Stories of Prostitution
2011 Skydancer
2014 Sur les Gratte-Ciel de New York
2017 Ohero:kon - Under the Husk
2020 Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe
2023 Razing Liberty Square
Writer:
2003 Ferry Tales
2006 Hole in the Sky - The Scars of 9/11
2010 Hooker, Harlot, Whore, Stories of Prostitution
2011 Skydancer
2014 Sur les Gratte-Ciel de New York
2017 Ohero:kon - Under the Husk
2020 Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe
2023 Razing Liberty Square
Creator:
2013 Backroads USA
2016 Amerikas Flüsse
Director:
2013 Backroads USA
2016 Amerikas Flüsse
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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.