A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Laura Young attended Weber State University where she received a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and Chemistry. After earning a private pilots license and several licenses in securities trading, she excelled as a stockbroker for a number of years before starting on a new and exciting path in film. In 2007, Laura began pursuing her dream of being a film producer and in 2009, released her first short film, Unpleasantville, which made its debut at several film festivals across the country, including, The Gig Harbor film festival in Washington and the prestigious Chicago Children's International Film Festival. Laura has since produced the acclaimed short films, Dead Celebrities Society, and 4. She then produced a Reebok promotional advertisement and most recently completed the teaser trailers, Monstrosity and Gloom, which is currently in pre-production as a full-length feature film. With a strong background in music retail management, Laura developed an advanced understanding of the industry and honed her superb management skills as owner and operator of a retail outlet at the Rocky Mountain Raceway in West Valley, Utah. This was an experience that also expanded her talents in graphic design. Laura then established her film production company where she developed two websites, one of which has been featured in multiple media articles where a favorable review was printed in the renowned international news outlet, The Guardian. While traveling many areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas with her father, who is a producer on The Swan Princess film series, Laura has become highly knowledgeable in film licensing and distribution. She now acts as associate producer for The Swan Princess series as well as music manager and director of product licensing. In 2011, Laura moved to Los Angeles, California to further advance her career in the film industry. She is currently developing an adaptation of her sister's story of survival in the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting.
Associate Producer:
2017 The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover
Executive Producer:
2017 8 Bodies
2017 The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover
2018 The Swan Princess: A Royal Myztery
2019 The Swan Princess: Kingdom of Music
2020 The Swan Princess: A Royal Wedding
2023 Snow Falls
Producer:
2017 8 Bodies
2017 The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover
2018 The Swan Princess: A Royal Myztery
2019 The Swan Princess: Kingdom of Music
2020 The Swan Princess: A Royal Wedding
2023 Snow Falls
Story:
2017 8 Bodies
2017 The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover
2018 The Swan Princess: A Royal Myztery
2019 The Swan Princess: Kingdom of Music
2020 The Swan Princess: A Royal Wedding
2023 Snow Falls
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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.