A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Michael James Tien
Birthplace:
Exeter, Ontario, Canada
Born:
July 3, 1967
Camera Operator:
2007 Too Young to Marry
2014 Clown
Cinematography:
2001 House of Luk
2005 A Taste Of Jupiter
2007 Blood on the Moon
2007 Too Young to Marry
2014 Clown
2018 The Fruit Machine
Director of Photography:
2001 House of Luk
2005 A Taste Of Jupiter
2007 Blood on the Moon
2007 Too Young to Marry
2014 Clown
2016 Jacob's Wrath
2018 A Christmas for the Books
2018 The Fruit Machine
2019 Christmas Crush
2019 Mistletoe & Menorahs
2019 Winter Castle
2020 Christmas on Wheels
2021 A Christmas Stray
2021 Baby, It's Cold Inside
2021 Deadly Mom Retreat
2021 Evil Stepmom
2021 Fit for a Prince
2021 Maps and Mistletoe
2022 Fly Away With Me
2022 Lemonade Stand Romance
2022 Road Trip Romance
2022 The Most Colorful Time of the Year
2023 House of Deadly Lies
2023 Laughing All the Way
2023 Maid for Revenge
2024 Abracadabra and a Christmas Miracle
2024 Unwrapping Christmas: Olivia's Reunion
2024 Unwrapping Christmas: Tina's Miracle
2025 Falling in Love in Niagara
Second Unit Director of Photography:
2001 House of Luk
2005 A Taste Of Jupiter
2007 Blood on the Moon
2007 Too Young to Marry
2012 House at the End of the Street
2014 Clown
2016 Jacob's Wrath
2018 A Christmas for the Books
2018 The Fruit Machine
2019 Christmas Crush
2019 Mistletoe & Menorahs
2019 Winter Castle
2020 Christmas on Wheels
2021 A Christmas Stray
2021 Baby, It's Cold Inside
2021 Deadly Mom Retreat
2021 Evil Stepmom
2021 Fit for a Prince
2021 Maps and Mistletoe
2022 Fly Away With Me
2022 Lemonade Stand Romance
2022 Road Trip Romance
2022 The Most Colorful Time of the Year
2023 House of Deadly Lies
2023 Laughing All the Way
2023 Maid for Revenge
2024 Abracadabra and a Christmas Miracle
2024 Unwrapping Christmas: Olivia's Reunion
2024 Unwrapping Christmas: Tina's Miracle
2025 Falling in Love in Niagara
Steadicam Operator:
2001 House of Luk
2005 A Taste Of Jupiter
2007 Blood on the Moon
2007 Too Young to Marry
2012 House at the End of the Street
2014 Clown
2016 Jacob's Wrath
2018 A Christmas for the Books
2018 The Fruit Machine
2019 Christmas Crush
2019 Mistletoe & Menorahs
2019 Winter Castle
2020 Christmas on Wheels
2021 A Christmas Stray
2021 Baby, It's Cold Inside
2021 Deadly Mom Retreat
2021 Evil Stepmom
2021 Fit for a Prince
2021 Maps and Mistletoe
2022 Fly Away With Me
2022 Lemonade Stand Romance
2022 Road Trip Romance
2022 Rush for Your Life
2022 The Most Colorful Time of the Year
2023 House of Deadly Lies
2023 Laughing All the Way
2023 Maid for Revenge
2024 Abracadabra and a Christmas Miracle
2024 Unwrapping Christmas: Olivia's Reunion
2024 Unwrapping Christmas: Tina's Miracle
2025 Falling in Love in Niagara
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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.