A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Garrett Evan Russell was born in Indianapolis, IN to Terri Smith (Anderson, IN) and Dave Russell (Chicago, IL). His mother is an IT manager, and his father is an architect for veterinarian hospitals across the US. He graduated from Ball State University in 2022 with a Bachelor's Degree in Arts and Media, specifically in Video Production and Film. He began his career by directing and producing various short films for his YouTube channel and production company Rockbuster Productions, his first short film was Plague (2021), which he made for very few resources and shot on an iPhone. His first appearance and work on a feature film was when he served as Assistant Director and an extra on Ninja in the Mafia's Shadow (2023). Later on in the year, he became Director of Photography and Film Editor on The First Harvest (2023).
Cinematography:
2023 The First Harvest
2024 This Cold Black
Sound:
2023 The First Harvest
2024 This Cold Black
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.