A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Henna Taylor is a self-taught documentary filmmaker. She began making short videos of her time living with four rural midwives in Cambodia. Over the next decade, her nonlinear relationship with filmmaking grew exponentially. She has since written, directed, filmed, edited, and produced six award-winning short documentary films, including “Best Mountain Short Film” at BANFF. Her first, highly anticipated, feature length documentary, An Accidental Life, debuted in 2022. Henna’s work is emotionally deep and wide, and in its best moments, achieves that much sought-after emotional catharsis central to the tradition of storytelling and theater. Henna builds the stories she tells by staying present for the absurd, imperfect, painful, hilarious, and terribly vulnerable states of the human experience. Her compassion and relationship with her subjects is shared clearly and poignantly through her work.
Director:
2018 Reel Rock 13
2018 The Valley of the Moon
2020 A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground
2022 An Accidental Life
Editor:
2018 Reel Rock 13
2018 The Valley of the Moon
2020 A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground
2022 An Accidental Life
Producer:
2018 Reel Rock 13
2018 The Valley of the Moon
2020 A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground
2022 An Accidental Life
Writer:
2018 Reel Rock 13
2018 The Valley of the Moon
2020 A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground
2022 An Accidental Life
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.