A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Mexico City, Mexico
Born:
January 12, 1975
Born and raised in Mexico City. From a very early age he dreamt of becoming a filmmaker. After high school he began working in the Mexican film industry taking film and acting courses at the Ibero University in Mexico in-between shoots, until he made his break into commercials. He studied acting with Judith Weston, and some of México's finest film critics and Directors. Passionate regarding storytelling and actors, he's managed to pour heart and soul into his work to combine real and truthful performances with classic filmmaking techniques always looking to upgrade the idea narratively, visually, or doing it as a mise-en-scène engaging on a creative work that aims to take ideas higher managing to ground them on a reality based level. His work never seems exaggerated nor bloated regarding a performance or a cut that doesn't belong in a story. He's a team player, and he likes to take ideas to the next level.
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.