A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Mat Kirkby is an Oscar winning writer/director, directing over 100 commercials & music videos out of Ridley Scott Associates in London, with videos for Adele, Muse and Fatboy Slim, over 500 million hits on Youtube, and ads for Nike, Playstation and some french deep fried dog biscuits called 'Frolic' (banned in the UK). He likes owls. He set the world record for 'Most Consecutive Bikini Waxes' for his Fatboy Slim video 'Bushes'. He won an Oscar and tripped up the stairs. His greatest achievement to date remains reaching 8th Dan at 'Yee-Arr Kung-Fu' on the Amiga 64 in 1982.
Director:
2007 Hard to Swallow
2013 The Phone Call
Executive Producer:
2007 Hard to Swallow
2013 The Phone Call
Writer:
2007 Hard to Swallow
2013 The Phone Call
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.