A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Benjamin Ironside Koppin is an award winning writer and director. He has a passion for finding honesty and truth within the medium of film. He loves collaborating with actors, pushing each other to find what is authentic within each moment. Since graduating from Biola University with a degree in Cinema & Media Arts, he has directed eight feature films (3 Documentaries and 5 Narratives). His documentary work informs how he approaches narrative features - often shooting his own work in order to have a more intimate relationship with his actors, pursuing beautiful mistakes instead of manufactured moments.
Director:
2016 Post-Apocalyptic Prom
2017 Made Me Do It
2019 Showbread: The Music is Dead
2022 Return to Me
2023 Slasher Killer Tapes
2024 Pastor's Kid
Editor:
2016 Post-Apocalyptic Prom
2017 Made Me Do It
2019 Showbread: The Music is Dead
2022 Return to Me
2023 Slasher Killer Tapes
2024 Pastor's Kid
Producer:
2016 Post-Apocalyptic Prom
2017 Made Me Do It
2019 Showbread: The Music is Dead
2022 Return to Me
2023 Slasher Killer Tapes
2024 Pastor's Kid
Screenplay:
2016 Post-Apocalyptic Prom
2017 Made Me Do It
2019 Showbread: The Music is Dead
2022 Return to Me
2023 Slasher Killer Tapes
2024 Pastor's Kid
Writer:
2016 Post-Apocalyptic Prom
2017 Made Me Do It
2019 Showbread: The Music is Dead
2022 Return to Me
2023 Slasher Killer Tapes
2024 Pastor's Kid
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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.