A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
I grew up in a no-stoplight town in Indiana and moved to New York City to study film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. I became a color assistant at Deluxe New York/CO3, an international film and television post house, where I worked on independent and studio features (Pariah, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Wolf of Wall Street), and episodic television (The Americans, Elementary). After Deluxe I went to Box Studios, a boutique-style post house and advertising agency, where I did color grading for fashion films (Prada, Balmain, Alexander Wang), music videos (Madonna x Steven Klein), and independent features (While We Were Young, Mistress America, Magic in the Moonlight). My current work includes shorts/features (narrative and experimental), commercials for broadcast and web, VR, documentaries, and music videos. One of my favorite aspects of running my own business is being able to have direct communication with all my clients. I believe having easy-to-understand and personable interactions makes working within a technical + artistic environment the most enjoyable for everyone. — M P.S. I use the gender neutral pronouns: they, them, theirs. Don’t hesitate to ask me about it if you’re unfamiliar. :)
Colorist:
2018 We Have Always Been on Fire
2020 Cancer is Gay
2020 Joy Run
2020 Pink & Blue
2023 Finding Our Wild
2023 Vibrator Girl
2024 Under False Colors
Dailies Technician:
2013 The Immigrant
2018 We Have Always Been on Fire
2020 Cancer is Gay
2020 Joy Run
2020 Pink & Blue
2023 Finding Our Wild
2023 Vibrator Girl
2024 Under False Colors
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.