A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Neil Ferron is a second year Directing Fellow at the AFI Conservatory. As a playwright, his work has received Critics’ Picks from The Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine, and The Seattle Weekly, as well as nominations for a Gregory Award (2011, Best Playwright) and a Stranger Genius Award (2014, The Satori Group). In 2014, he moved to filmmaking, starting with music videos. His music videos have been screened at national festivals and premiered by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and Stereogum. His work has been described as “wonderfully surreal” (Sub Pop Records), “shocking, horrific and just a little bit funny” (Rolling Stone), and a “Ph.D testing of a calculated hypothesis on what ‘works’ on the human consciousness” (Seattle Weekly). Neil holds an Honors BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Santa Clara University, a creative writing certificate from Stanford University, and--thanks to a George J. Mitchell Scholarship--an MPhil in Theatre and Performance from Trinity College Dublin. He will be receiving his MFA in Film Directing from the AFI Conservatory in 2020.
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.