A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
David Cruz, a passionate self-taught filmmaker who has always been fascinated by the power of storytelling. As a child, he found solace in theme parks and cinema, which eventually turned into his life's calling. With an unrelenting desire to experiment with different forms of storytelling, David taught himself how to edit and quickly became more interested in the arts. He pursued a film degree at the University of Central Arkansas, where he turned his thesis film into his first feature, Llego Hoy. David firmly believes that the independent spirit is essential for anyone looking to create their film. Currently, he is working on multiple projects, one titled Pecking Lot, a dystopian fantasy that is still in its early stages of development.
Director:
2024 Llego Hoy
Director of Photography:
2022 The Lights are Closed and my Eyes are Dark
2024 Llego Hoy
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Writer:
2022 The Lights are Closed and my Eyes are Dark
2024 Llego Hoy
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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.