A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Nathan Blair has loved movies his whole life. As a child of the 80's, his favorite move of all time is "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark." He always fantasized about making movies but thought it too impossible. God disagreed. While working as a graphic designer, God began calling him to become a filmmaker. The calling excited and terrified him which eventually led to a time of fasting and prayer. As he tells it, "God only made me wait 2 meals thankfully." He was sitting at his kitchen table when God spoke clearly with a simple word, "Go." With 5 feature films (A Perfect Chord, 2nd Greatest, A High School Story, SCION, Sleeper Agent) to his credit as writer, director, cinematographer and editor, Nathan has cultivated his calling to create high level crossover films with a Christ centered message. It has been said that he's a "force to reckon with" in the faith-based. Recently, Nathan has become the Executive Director of Cross Wind Productions a 501(c)3 ministry where the next generation of Christian filmmakers are inspired, encouraged and trained, all with a Christian worldview. Nathan has said "While Christian filmmakers are producing new content that speaks to adults, Hollywood works tirelessly to capture the hearts and minds of our children." Cross Wind is a place where teens can make a movie for teens. Where they can speak a language, they want to hear.
Cinematography:
2018 Scion
Director:
2015 A Perfect Chord
2016 2nd Greatest
2017 A High School Story
2018 Scion
2020 Sleeper Agent
Editor:
2015 A Perfect Chord
2016 2nd Greatest
2017 A High School Story
2018 Scion
2020 Sleeper Agent
Screenplay:
2015 A Perfect Chord
2016 2nd Greatest
2017 A High School Story
2018 Scion
2020 Sleeper Agent
Writer:
2015 A Perfect Chord
2016 2nd Greatest
2017 A High School Story
2018 Scion
2020 Sleeper Agent
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.