A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Timothy Cruz
Birthplace:
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Born:
April 27, 1984
Tim was born in Manila and immigrated to New Jersey with his father when he was eight years old to join his mother. Growing up, Tim would make short films with his friends, which earned him a scholarship spot at NYU’s Future Filmmakers Program, a diversity program for underserved youth looking to learn film and television. After leaving film school in NYC, Tim produced music videos for G-UNIT and worked with multiple major label recording artists. From 50 Cent, AZ, Mobb Deep, to Gavin Degraw, 30 Seconds to Mars, Bruno Mars (shout out to my Filipino brother), and Lady Gaga. He eventually moved to LA, where he transitioned from producing to directing music videos, many of which have aired on MTV, VH1, and have amassed millions of YouTube views. Tim also went on to direct YouTube-targeted branded content for Mattel’s Hot Wheels, Apple Music, and Google, reaching millions of viewers. His direct response commercials have aired Internationally and one even went on to becoming a mocked satire by Stephen Colbert. Tim’s digital branded series have proliferated the internet and also garnered millions of views.
Director:
2019 Starting Up Love
2020 Secrets at the Lake
2022 The Final Rose
2024 What Happens in Miami
Writer:
2019 Starting Up Love
2020 Secrets at the Lake
2022 The Final Rose
2024 What Happens in Miami
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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.