A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Michael is a critically acclaimed, award-winning writer-director from Watts. His unconventional filmmaking journey began after earning a UCLA engineering degree and establishing a career in Aerospace. His visionary short films, shot across Serbia, El Salvador, and Belarus, weave a distinctive tapestry of family, fantasy, magic, and miracles. His breakthrough work MI TESORO made history as one of the first Salvadoran-produced fiction pieces to be featured on HBO. ABC further showcased his talent during Hispanic Heritage month, cementing his rising profile. The prestigious Academy of Motion Pictures selected Michael for their exclusive Film Accelerator program, recognizing his exceptional creative voice. Michael's feature film debut LOVE DOLL premiered on Tubi, expanding his acclaimed storytelling to new audiences. Most recently, his artistic evolution has been recognized with a nomination for Best Short at the renowned Raindance Film Festival.
Director:
2017 My Treasure
2019 The Bell
2022 Love Doll
???? San Simon is Always Right
Executive Producer:
2017 My Treasure
2019 The Bell
2022 Love Doll
???? San Simon is Always Right
Producer:
2017 My Treasure
2019 The Bell
2022 Love Doll
???? San Simon is Always Right
Writer:
2017 My Treasure
2019 The Bell
2022 Love Doll
???? San Simon is Always Right
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.