Home

Troy Hale

Gallery Unavailable

Biography from TheMovieDB

Troy is a 32-time Emmy Award winner and has been nominated over 65 times for his work as a documentary filmmaker, and television journalist.  Troy worked as a Filmmaker, Director, Writer, Reporter, Host, Investigative Journalist, Photojournalist, Editor, Radio DJ, Lighting Designer, Audio operator, Live Truck Operator, Drummer, Guitarist........  Troy has covered hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, presidential elections, the MTV Video Music Awards, Tyson/Lewis fight, the Big Ten, NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS and anything else with an abbreviation. Along the way he has picked up an Edward R. Murrow award, a CINE Golden Eagle, an Addy, 11 Tellys, two Associated Press awards, three National and 10 regional NPPA awards, a Sweden film award and many others.  Distributed Documentary Films:  Troy has created around 15 Documentary films. The 2 more recent feature films received international distribution. "Sh*t Saves the World" is distributed in the USA through Gravitas Ventures, in the UK/Ireland through Koch Films/Koch Media, UniversCine in France, NowTV in Hong Kong, Proview in Japan, and also has distribution in Taiwan.  "Fart: A Documentary" received distribution through Vision Films. The film is available in the USA, Finland, France and a few other countries. You can find both films on Amazon, iTunes, Apple TV, VUDU, Google Play, Microsoft, VIMEO on-demand, YouTube and many others. Film Festivals:  Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Amsterdam World International Film Festival, Euro Film Festival Geneva, 13th International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest, Seoul Eco Film Festival, CinemAmbiente - Environmental Film Festival – Torino Italy, International OCEAN FILM TOUR Munich, Germany, Twin Cities Film Festival (Minneapolis), Cinema Verde International Environmental Film Festival (Florida), First Coast Film Festival (Jacksonville), Cannes International Independent Film Festival, Social World Film Festival, Untied Film Festival Los Angeles, The Chicago United Film Festival, Charlotte Film Festival, Ft. Myers Beach Film Festival, Flint Film Festival, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival (7 Remi Awards), Sweden Film Award, Detroit Windsor International Film Festival, San Francisco Black Film Festival, Grand Rapids Film Festival, Orlando Film Festival, St. Louis Film Festival, Traverse City Film Festival, Hollywood Florida Film Festival. Winner Best Feature – The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards, Nominated: Best Cinematography – The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards, Nominated: Best Genre Film – The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards, Nominated - Best Documentary - US Hollywood Int’l Golden Film Awards, Nominated - Best Director - US Hollywood Int’l Golden Film Awards , Nominated - Best Editing - US Hollywood Int’l Golden Film Awards, Nominated - Best Cinematography - US Hollywood Int’l Golden Film Awards Nominated – Best Documentary – US Hollywood Int’l Golden Film Awards  Member: National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Broadcast Education Association, Michigan Creative Film Alliance, Investigative Reporters and Editor Troy is known through the industry as a creative visual storyteller and a perfectionist. Troy is the Director, Editor and Cinematographer for his own company Troy Hale Films.  Troy serves as a Judge for regional Emmy awards all over the USA, as well as other major awards.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Film Production

Director:
2016  Fart: A Documentary
2022  Sh*t Saves the World

Producer:
2016  Fart: A Documentary
2022  Sh*t Saves the World
2024  Dads Recipe

Writer:
2016  Fart: A Documentary
2022  Sh*t Saves the World
2024  Dads Recipe

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

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:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

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.