A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Brent Butler is an American television producer and director. An early member of the comedy collective JASH, he helped launch digital first shows like Norm Macdonald Live, Getting Doug with High, and Drinks of My Life with Beth Stelling. He is the Executive Producer for Magnolia Network's Self Employed, Discovery's Gold Rush: The Dirt, and Confessions from Space: Apollo. He also created and EP'd the hit solar racing documentary series Light Speed for Seeker and YouTube originals.
Director:
2019 Confessions from Space: Apollo
Producer:
2019 Confessions from Space: Apollo
2021 Inland Empire
Production Consultant:
2019 Confessions from Space: Apollo
2021 Inland Empire
2022 Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special
Director:
2013 Norm Macdonald Live
Executive Producer:
2013 Norm Macdonald Live
Producer:
2013 Norm Macdonald Live
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.