A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alex is an award-winning Native Hawaiian filmmaker who lives and works in Honolulu and Los Angeles. The connecting thread of his creative work that extends into his commercial projects is the desire to use his unique visual style to share real human stories, spotlight those that do good, and inspire action. In 2022, Alex was selected to be a part of the Disney Launchpad Program, where he is directing a film for Disney+ to be released in 2023.
Director:
2017 Go for Broke
2020 The Pit Where We Were Born
2023 AAPI Heritage Heroes
2023 Shaka: A Story of Aloha
2023 The Roof
Editor:
2017 Go for Broke
2018 Other People
2020 The Pit Where We Were Born
2023 AAPI Heritage Heroes
2023 Shaka: A Story of Aloha
2023 The Roof
Producer:
2017 Go for Broke
2018 Other People
2020 The Pit Where We Were Born
2023 AAPI Heritage Heroes
2023 Shaka: A Story of Aloha
2023 The Roof
Sound Designer:
2017 Go for Broke
2018 Other People
2020 The Pit Where We Were Born
2023 AAPI Heritage Heroes
2023 Ka ʻāʻumeʻume
2023 Shaka: A Story of Aloha
2023 The Roof
Writer:
2017 Go for Broke
2018 Other People
2020 The Pit Where We Were Born
2023 AAPI Heritage Heroes
2023 Ka ʻāʻumeʻume
2023 Shaka: A Story of Aloha
2023 The Roof
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.