A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Oakland, California, USA
Born:
July 4, 1958
Taylor was born in Oakland, California, and lived in Norway for a few years in his childhood. He attended the University of Montana and later San Francisco State University. He studied poetry and play-writing at San Francisco State before moving into screenwriting in 1993. Taylor frequently works and produces films in the San Francisco bay area rather than for major studios in Hollywood and Los Angeles. Taylor told the San Francisco Chronicle, "I feel really strongly that I stay based up here. My roots in San Francisco go way back to when I ran a literary series at Intersection for the Arts. I see no reason to work anywhere else." Taylor has also cited the greater creative control and the ability to make unconventional films as a reason for remaining independent. In 1994, Taylor wrote his first feature film, Pontiac Moon. - IMDb Mini Biography By: yusufpiskin
Director:
1997 Dream with the Fishes
2002 Cherish
2006 The Darwin Awards
2017 Unleashed
2023 Avenue of the Giants
Screenplay:
1994 Pontiac Moon
1997 Dream with the Fishes
2002 Cherish
2006 The Darwin Awards
2017 Unleashed
2023 Avenue of the Giants
Story:
1994 Pontiac Moon
1997 Dream with the Fishes
2002 Cherish
2006 The Darwin Awards
2017 Unleashed
2023 Avenue of the Giants
Writer:
1994 Pontiac Moon
1997 Dream with the Fishes
2002 Cherish
2006 The Darwin Awards
2017 Unleashed
2023 Avenue of the Giants
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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.