A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
Ben Ketai is an American film and television director, writer, and producer, best known for directing and writing the feature film "30 Days of Night: Dark Days" with the accompanying webseries "30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust", as well as creating the television shows "Chosen" and "StartUp".
Co-Producer:
2006 Tales from The Grudge
Director:
2006 Tales from The Grudge
2010 30 Days of Night: Dark Days
2013 Beneath
2023 River Wild
Executive Producer:
2006 Tales from The Grudge
2010 30 Days of Night: Dark Days
2013 Beneath
2023 River Wild
???? Undying
Screenplay:
2006 Tales from The Grudge
2010 30 Days of Night: Dark Days
2013 Beneath
2016 Johnny Frank Garrett's Last Word
2018 The Strangers: Prey at Night
2023 River Wild
???? Undying
Writer:
2006 Tales from The Grudge
2007 Devil's Trade
2010 30 Days of Night: Dark Days
2013 Beneath
2016 Johnny Frank Garrett's Last Word
2016 The Forest
2018 Malevolent
2018 The Strangers: Prey at Night
2023 River Wild
???? Undying
Creator:
2013 Chosen
2016 Quantum Break
2016 StartUp
2020 The Expecting
Director:
2008 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust
2013 Chosen
2016 Quantum Break
2016 StartUp
2020 The Expecting
Executive Producer:
2008 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust
2013 Chosen
2016 Quantum Break
2016 StartUp
2020 The Expecting
Writer:
2007 Devil's Trade
2008 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust
2013 Chosen
2016 Quantum Break
2016 StartUp
2020 The Expecting
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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.