A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Todd Hunter
Growing up an awkward, shy kid from a conservative area, Todd Hunter now writes heightened dramas that empower odd-man-out protagonists or someone from a minority community. After 15 years as an actor and stuntman, Todd transitioned behind the camera where he bangs his head somewhat less frequently. An award-winning short producer, he studied Screenwriting and Producing at UCLA Extension and Script Anatomy. Marc Cherry, Gary Lennon are mentors. A lifelong martial artist, Todd also teaches self-defense for the City of West Hollywood. His dog, Pip (the sweetest little terrier rescue), takes up a disproportionate amount of his time.
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.