A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
October 14, 1999
Nathan Xia is a Chinese American actor, filmmaker, and indie-rock artist from San Diego, California. His films have been screened at festivals like Lebron James’ Uninterrupted Film Festival and the Urbanworld Film Festival, won awards at the Nashville Film Festival and the Ouray International Film Festival, and distributed worldwide by platforms like Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and PBS. Xia's innate fascination with misunderstood people inspires him to tell stories driven by deeply emotional performances from complex characters. His films explore themes of mental health, coming-of-age, and the Asian American experience through an emotionally vibrant and comedic personal lens.
Camera Operator:
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Director:
2021 Chasing Sundance
2022 Oh, Mighty Ocean!
2023 Adam's Song
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Producer:
2021 Chasing Sundance
2022 Oh, Mighty Ocean!
2023 Adam's Song
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???? The Room Returns
Second Unit Director:
2021 Chasing Sundance
2022 Oh, Mighty Ocean!
2023 Adam's Song
2023 Magic Carpet Rides
???? Ayo, Check Up!
???? Indian In A Box
???? The Room Returns
Writer:
2021 Chasing Sundance
2022 Oh, Mighty Ocean!
2023 Adam's Song
2023 Magic Carpet Rides
???? Ayo, Check Up!
???? Indian In A Box
???? The Room Returns
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.