A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Houston, Texas, USA
Originally from Houston, TX, Yusef moved to California to attend Chapman University's film school. From there, he launched his producing careers in the music video and commercial space, collaborating with artists such as Kanye West, Katy Perry, Travis Scott, J-Cole, Ed Sheeran, Chance the Rapper, Khalid, Bad Bunny, Anitta, Tame Impala, Marshmello, Cardi B, and brands such as Lego, Adidas, eBay, Mountain Dew, Luis Vuitton, Ciroc and Samsung on productions filmed around the world. He has accrued two VMA nominations and one Latin Grammy nomination for best music video. In the fall of 2019, he took on the feature film, North Hollywood, producing and line producing the project from the script's conception through its production, post-production, and sales and marketing stages, and even attached several cast members to the film, including Miranda Cosgrove. Today, he has a range of films, TV shows and documentaries in development and pre-production, all rooted with the goal of connecting international audiences with different upbringings, beliefs and cultures through authentic, character driven stories.
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.