A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Having discovered his passion for filmmaking at a young age, John sought out every possible opportunity to learn and develop his skills as a producer. A Midwestern native, John obtained his BA in filmmaking from Columbia College Chicago and his MFA in producing from DePaul University. He's served as producer on numerous feature length films and is a proud member of the Producers Guild of America. As his body of work continues to expand he seeks to work with filmmakers that have unique and creative perspectives.
Director:
2015 Dearest Jane
2016 Less than 30
2017 The Pale Man
???? The Z Word
Producer:
2015 Dearest Jane
2016 Less than 30
2017 The Pale Man
2019 The Lurker
2021 A Father's Legacy
2024 Peter Five Eight
2024 The Gates
???? A Social Contract
???? Let It Kill You
???? The Z Word
Writer:
2015 Dearest Jane
2016 Less than 30
2017 The Pale Man
2019 The Lurker
2021 A Father's Legacy
2024 Peter Five Eight
2024 The Gates
???? A Social Contract
???? Let It Kill You
???? The Z Word
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.