A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Jesse Edwards is an award-winning Writer, Director, and Producer. His debut feature film, The Stolen Valley (2022), has won multiple awards including Best Narrative Feature and Best Director at the Utah Film Festival. For 10 years Jesse worked as a commercial director for brands such as Disney, National Geographic, and BMW. In 2017 he began producing and directing for many documentary and TV shows including National Geographic's The Story of God (2019), Chain of Command (2018), and Origins: The Journey of Humankind (2017). He was the producer and director for two seasons of the ESPN+ series: Draft Academy (2018, 2019). Jesse has been honored with 3 National Emmy Awards for his commercial and unscripted work and received over 30+ National Emmy Nominations.
Director:
2020 Distance
2021 Life After
2024 The Stolen Valley
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Director of Photography:
2020 Distance
2021 Life After
2024 The Stolen Valley
???? The Wildman of Shaggy Creek
Executive Producer:
2019 One Night: Joshua vs. Ruiz
2020 Black Thoughts
2020 Distance
2021 Life After
2024 The Stolen Valley
???? The Wildman of Shaggy Creek
Producer:
2019 One Night: Joshua vs. Ruiz
2020 Black Thoughts
2020 Distance
2021 Life After
2024 The Stolen Valley
???? The Wildman of Shaggy Creek
Writer:
2019 One Night: Joshua vs. Ruiz
2020 Black Thoughts
2020 Distance
2021 Life After
2024 The Stolen Valley
???? The Wildman of Shaggy Creek
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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.