A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born in 1983, in the tiny, redneck, Ohio village of Mount Gilead, Terence was destined for rural living. Thankfully, in high school, he realized he loved filmmaking while working on video projects for various classes. At 18, he moved out, got married, and became a manager of the local movie theatre in a slightly larger, redneck, Ohio town. At 21, he divorced his wife, quit his job, and finally went to film school. Terence attended The Motion Picture Institute of Michigan while still living in Ohio. He drove 7 hours, round trip, 3 days a week to attend there and worked at a small ice cream shop in Mount Gilead to pay for his first 16mm short film, An Exercise In Narcissism. After graduating M.P.I. in September of 2005 he finally moved to Michigan to begin his career in the film industry. He's worked on films of every caliber ranging from short, no-budget horror films with no script shot on VHS to several hundred thousand dollar feature films shot on 35mm film. He's also been known to get gigs as a casting P.A. on a network and cable channel reality shows when they're casting in the Detroit area. He's held every position at every step in the filmmaking process at least once, whether it be Production Assistant or Director. Though primarily an editor, his directorial debut, An Exercise In Narcissism, has played in film festivals as far away as Berlin, Germany, and continues to find venues to play in. In addition to being an award-winning filmmaker, he is a published poet and an accomplished sculptor whose pieces have appeared in several Detroit gallery shows.
Editor:
2012 The Amazing Cynicalman
Visual Effects Editor:
2012 The Amazing Cynicalman
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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.