A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
United Kingdom
Michael Fausti is an award winning director, writer and actor. He was born in the U.K. and studied Literature, Art and Film at the universities of London and Kent, where he developed an interest in surrealist cinema and art house horror. Deciding to focus on filmmaking, Fausti then went on to study film, make up and visual effects at the London Academy of Film and TV. He cites his cinematic influences as the films of Michael Powell, Alan Clarke, Dario Argento and Jean-Pierre Melville. An exponent of "Lo-Fi" filmmaking and practical effects, Fausti has written and directed a range of award winning films. He has stated that, "ideas are the most important technology of filmmaking."
Director:
2017 The Ingress Tapes
2020 Exit
2023 Video Shop Tales of Terror
2024 Burnt Flowers
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Editor:
2017 The Ingress Tapes
2020 Exit
2023 Video Shop Tales of Terror
2024 Burnt Flowers
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Writer:
2017 The Ingress Tapes
2020 Exit
2023 Video Shop Tales of Terror
2024 Burnt Flowers
???? Dead Celebrities
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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.