A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Ben Mathews
Ben Matthews
Birthplace:
Australia
Benjamin Mathews is an Australian award-winning filmmaker, actor, and coach. As a director, Benjamin's work has won over 25 international awards for film, television, comedy, advertising, and documentary, and screened at film festivals all over the world, including Cannes. Ben is the only Australian ever nominated for the Student Academy Awards for his short film Emily. As a writer, he was nominated for an Australian Writer’s Guild AWGIE Award. In addition to film, Mathews has written and directed television for the ABC and MTV, such as BedHead and Deadbeat Dads, documentaries, web series and is currently working on his first feature film, Harvey’s Wake.
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.