A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Described by The Australian as "the new [James] Wan", Jack Dignan is the award-winning writer, director and producer of found footage horror film ‘Puzzle Box,’ releasing theatrically this year by Welcome Villain Films, and 'After She Died,’ released globally by Good Deed Entertainment. He has also directed a segment in the upcoming Untitled Terror Films Anthology Feature, which will be released on Halloween. Jack began his career as a well-regarded Australian film journalist, while also working on globally recognised short films such as ‘It Feels Like Spring’ and ‘Does Nobody See The Gun?’. Jack then spent years working on high-profile Hollywood productions, such as ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,’ ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,’ ‘Mortal Kombat 2,’ 'Thor: Love and Thunder', 'Elvis', 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' and more. He's collaborated and worked with numerous Oscar winners and brings that knowledge and experience into his own filmmaking career.
Cinematography:
2023 Puzzle Box
Director:
2022 After She Died
2023 Puzzle Box
2024 Puzzle Box: The Glitch
Editor:
2022 After She Died
2023 Puzzle Box
2024 Puzzle Box: The Glitch
Producer:
2022 After She Died
2023 Puzzle Box
2024 Puzzle Box: The Glitch
Writer:
2022 After She Died
2023 Puzzle Box
2024 Puzzle Box: The Glitch
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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.