A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Tiago Mesquita is an award-winning director, cinematographer and producer with over twenty years of film experience in Europe, the USA, and across four continents. He combines robust technical expertise with a very personal, story-driven and artistic background. He is an award-winning director of "Cinequest," the feature film directing competition. Graduating with honours from the Los Angeles Film School on a scholarship from his national Ministry of Culture, he later taught film directing, film production and cinematography. Tiago is the studio head and lead producer of Crafted Films and Crafted United Industries, which combine production company, film financing and film studios (including full cinema equipment "A to Z" and full post-production facilities). Apart from his film training, his 25 years of traditional martial arts, mixed martial arts, and combat training serves him well when shooting ambitious action and fighting sequences. He worked with stunt teams from movies like "The Matrix," "Batman," "Transformers," "Rush Hour," and "Pirates of the Caribbean." Tiago also has a law degree, specializing in Cinema, European and International Law.
Director:
2019 Among the Shadows
Director of Photography:
2007 June Cabin
2013 The Employer
2014 Gutshot Straight
2014 Hidden Faces
2019 Among the Shadows
Line Producer:
2007 June Cabin
2013 The Employer
2014 Gutshot Straight
2014 Hidden Faces
2019 Among the Shadows
2019 Love, Romance & Chocolate
Music:
2007 June Cabin
2013 The Employer
2014 Gutshot Straight
2014 Hidden Faces
2019 Among the Shadows
2019 Love, Romance & Chocolate
Producer:
2007 June Cabin
2013 The Employer
2014 Gutshot Straight
2014 Hidden Faces
2019 Among the Shadows
2019 Love, Romance & Chocolate
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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.