A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
From the sister cities of Juárez/El Paso, Hugo is a Mexican-American filmmaker with a degree in Radio-Television-Film from UT Austin. A firm believer that film can be an agent of change, Hugo is passionate about exploring, voicing, and supporting underrepresented stories historically excluded from mainstream media. He has written, directed, and produced a variety of projects, in both English and Spanish, ranging from narrative fiction, documentaries, ads, music videos, and more. His work has been featured in multiple film festivals such as the New York Shorts International Film Festival, Georgia Latino International Film Festival, El Paso Film Festival, among others.
Director:
2022 No Need to Worry
2023 Brenda
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First Assistant Director:
2022 No Need to Worry
2023 Brenda
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Producer:
2022 No Need to Worry
2023 Brenda
2023 Liz & Karla
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Writer:
2022 No Need to Worry
2023 Brenda
2023 Liz & Karla
???? Do Not Disturb
???? Killer Killer
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.