A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Esme Von Hoffman
Esmé von Hoffman is an award-winning director, writer, and producer. Her acclaimed debut feature film Ovid and the Art of Love starring Corbin Bleu, John Savage and Tara Summers has made movies-to-watch lists on publications such as Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, IndieWire, Variety and more. Her work has been described as "beautiful, remarkable, original" by Film Threat, "clever" by RogerEbert, and "charming" by Forbes. Previous to her feature filmmaking, she also served as a producer at the Food Network and has worked on short films for organizations such as MindBodyGreen, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Flatiron Health among others. She studied history, screenwriting, and drama at Yale University and initially worked as an actress and freelance journalist in New York before moving on to filmmaking.
Assistant Editor:
2014 Listen Up Philip
Director:
2014 Listen Up Philip
2019 Ovid and the Art of Love
Editor:
2013 The Sixth Year
2014 Listen Up Philip
2019 Ovid and the Art of Love
Production Assistant:
2007 The Cake Eaters
2013 The Sixth Year
2014 Listen Up Philip
2019 Ovid and the Art of Love
Writer:
2007 The Cake Eaters
2013 The Sixth Year
2014 Listen Up Philip
2019 Ovid and the Art of Love
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.