A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Ben Willem
Willem is a seasoned music composer, who has written music for many multiple award-winning productions, including many feature films, television series and documentaries for international clients such as Netflix, Amazon prime, National Geographic, Discovery, Smithsonian.
Music:
2007 Cheetah Blood Brothers
2007 Lions of Crocodile River
2007 Predators in Peril
2010 Swamp Lions
2014 Blood Rivals: Lion vs Buffalo
2014 Pad Na Jou Hart
2016 My Father's War
2016 Vir Altyd
2019 Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2020 Cheetah Brothers in Arms
2020 Hippos of Crocodile River
2020 Serengeti Speed Queen
2022 Cheetahs of the Linyanti
2023 Predators of the Savuti
Musical:
2007 Cheetah Blood Brothers
2007 Lions of Crocodile River
2007 Predators in Peril
2010 Swamp Lions
2013 Lien se Lankstaanskoene
2014 Blood Rivals: Lion vs Buffalo
2014 Pad Na Jou Hart
2016 My Father's War
2016 Vir Altyd
2019 Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2020 Cheetah Brothers in Arms
2020 Hippos of Crocodile River
2020 Serengeti Speed Queen
2022 Cheetahs of the Linyanti
2023 Predators of the Savuti
Original Music Composer:
2007 Cheetah Blood Brothers
2007 Lions of Crocodile River
2007 Predators in Peril
2008 Bonecrusher Queens
2009 The Last Lioness
2010 Swamp Lions
2013 Lien se Lankstaanskoene
2013 The Last Lioness: Birth of a Pride
2013 The Real Lion Queen
2014 Blood Rivals: Lion vs Buffalo
2014 Leading Lady
2014 Pad Na Jou Hart
2015 ’n Man Soos My Pa
2016 My Father's War
2016 Vir Altyd
2019 Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2020 Cheetah Brothers in Arms
2020 Hippos of Crocodile River
2020 Serengeti Speed Queen
2022 Cheetahs of the Linyanti
2023 Predators of the Savuti
Original Music Composer:
2013 Stories of Africa
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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.