A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Social entrepreneur and filmmaker, Adolfo Franco is co-founder and CEO of CAUSAS.ORG, the largest social network for citizen participation in Mexico, with more than 200 thousand organizations and participants. He has been recognized with the 2009 National Solidarity Action Award by the President of Mexico, Mexico Initiative 2010 by Televisa, Gifted Citizen Awards 2012 by the City of Ideas, and with the Google Grant 2012 by the Tides Foundation. He is also part of the first generation of GLOBAL SHAPERS of the World Economic Forum and the advisory council of KYBERNUS. As a partner of KENIO FILMS, Franco has produced high-profile feature films with wide distribution in theaters in Mexico and the US, such as Cantinflas (2014), For those about to Rock (2014), The Perfect Game (2010) and Con los pies en el cielo (2009), working with world-class talent like Oscar Jaenada, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Lugosi Jr, Cliffon Collins, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, with musicians Rodrigo and Gabriela and now with comedian Franco Escamilla.
Co-Executive Producer:
2009 The Perfect Game
Executive Producer:
2008 Verano 79
2008 Vroom!-Vroom!
2009 The Perfect Game
2014 For Those About to Rock. The Story of Rodrigo y Gabriela
2018 Franco Escamilla: por la anécdota
2022 The Young Vote
Producer:
2005 La Sombra Del Sahuaro
2008 Verano 79
2008 Vroom!-Vroom!
2009 A Step from Heaven
2009 The Perfect Game
2014 Cantinflas
2014 For Those About to Rock. The Story of Rodrigo y Gabriela
2018 Franco Escamilla: por la anécdota
2022 The Young Vote
Writer:
2005 La Sombra Del Sahuaro
2008 Verano 79
2008 Vroom!-Vroom!
2009 A Step from Heaven
2009 The Perfect Game
2014 Cantinflas
2014 For Those About to Rock. The Story of Rodrigo y Gabriela
2018 Franco Escamilla: por la anécdota
2022 The Young Vote
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.