A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
İzmir, Türkiye
Baran Ismail Ulas is a filmmaker deeply committed to capturing the essence of the human experience. Through his lens, he explores the profound stories of ordinary people, revealing the richness of their lives and the complexity of their journeys. As the child of a migrant family, themes of belonging, society, alienation, and the individual’s struggle to integrate into the whole play a significant role in Baran’s films. His works often incorporate mystical and introspective, essayistic elements.
Cinematography:
2023 A Memory of Friendship
2024 Roots Unearthed
Director:
2019 Next Stop: Estonia
2023 A Memory of Friendship
2023 It's like summer, but in fact it's random
2024 Roots Unearthed
Editor:
2019 Next Stop: Estonia
2023 A Memory of Friendship
2023 It's like summer, but in fact it's random
2024 Roots Unearthed
Producer:
2019 Next Stop: Estonia
2023 A Memory of Friendship
2023 It's like summer, but in fact it's random
2024 Roots Unearthed
Sound Recordist:
2019 Next Stop: Estonia
2023 A Memory of Friendship
2023 It's like summer, but in fact it's random
2024 Roots Unearthed
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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.