A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Tom Russell
Thomas Russell is an American screenwriter, director and teacher based in Provo, Utah. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Production from Brigham Young University. In 1988, he briefly worked as a writer and videographer for the Bill Nelson Media Group in California. In 1989, he joined the McAtee & Associates Advertising Agency as a Copywriter and was promoted to a Senior Copywriter position the next year. He held the potision of Creative Director at McAtee from 1990 until his departure in December 1993. He joined CMJ Media in 1993 as an owner and was a Managing Parner from 1997 to 2000.
Director:
2005 Mr. Dungbeetle
2011 Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Executive Producer:
2005 Mr. Dungbeetle
2011 Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
2023 En Tierra Ajena y Desconocida
Writer:
2005 Mr. Dungbeetle
2011 Home Movies
2011 Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
2023 En Tierra Ajena y Desconocida
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.