A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
June 21, 1988
Piyush Thakur is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). His student short film, THE REAL MILLIONAIRE, was nominated for the International Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and travelled globally to more than 75 film festivals, winning multiple awards. He was selected from India for the International Student Film Camp Serbia. Post FTII, he worked as an assistant director to Sanjay Leela Bhansali on the film ‘Bajirao Mastani’. He was selected for the Kyoto Filmmakers Lab in Japan and Platform Busan at the Busan International Film Festival. His latest short film, THE FIRST FILM, had its world premiere at Festival de Cortos de Bogotá - BOGOSHORTS in Colombia and was recognized as a 'Short Film Market Pick' by the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and 'Film Bazaar Recommends' by NFDC Doc Film Bazaar. It won 'The German Star of India - Audience Award' at the Indian Film Festival of Stuttgart in Germany.
Director:
2023 The First Film
Editor:
2023 The First Film
Producer:
2023 The First Film
Writer:
2023 The First Film
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.