A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Walnut Creek, California, USA
Josh Samuels was born in Walnut Creek, California. He spent most of his youth in San Francisco and Marin County, California. After high school he attended College of Marin while working at Video Kamron, a video store specializing in foreign and independent films. After graduating from the University of Southern California he moved to Brisbane, Australia to go to film school. While living in New Zealand, Josh began writing for the stage with his theatre group Breaking the 5th Wall. This lead to filming a pilot for the group's show You Can't Beat Wellington and to write on 7 Days. After moving to Melbourne in 2012 he has continued writing and producing for television and the stage.
Writer:
2009 7 Days
2012 You're Skitting Me
2013 The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting
2018 Magic for Humans
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.