A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Ali West Ashe
Birthplace:
Houston, Texas, USA
Born:
November 7, 1984
Alex West is an actor and award-winning filmmaker best known for his dynamic portrayal of Montez in Angel (2023) the BET+ series, Louis in This Is Me Now (2024) with Jennifer Lopez on Prime, and his brainchild, Harvested: The Holiday Horror Film Franchise (Harvested 2021, Harvested 2 2022, and Harvested 3 2024). His other top credits include Angie’s Cure (2023), Dog (2022), A Holiday Change (2019), Dread (2019), and Don’t Shoot (2017). As the Owner of Culture Forward Media Group and Culture Forward TV, the LA native is married to Ruby Lee Dove II, who is also an actor and filmmaker. Standing 6’2, Alex is a retired basketball player, businessman, polymath, and philanthropist. Behind the Camera, Mr. West is a talented Writer, Director, Editor and Producer that has amassed 23 Awards Internationally (4X platinum). Creatively and stylistically, he is a unique blend of John Singleton, Jordan Peele, and John Woo, that has a distinct feel for rawness and immersion. His upcoming films are This Is Your Driver (2025) and Harvested 4 (2025), both in the horror/thriller genre. Alex favorite quotes: "You can swallow a pint of your own blood before you get sick". - Fight Club
Director:
2021 Harvested
2022 Harvested 2
2024 Harvested 3
2025 Harvested 4
Editor:
2021 Harvested
2022 Harvested 2
2024 Harvested 3
2025 Harvested 4
Producer:
2021 Harvested
2022 Harvested 2
2024 Harvested 3
2025 Harvested 4
Writer:
2021 Harvested
2022 Harvested 2
2024 Harvested 3
2025 Harvested 4
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.