A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
New York City, New York
Alex, a make the most out of every experience kind of person, is a self-taught film director with an international background, having spent his childhood in Montevideo and Buenos Aires–strongly showing in his evocative and atmospheric work. Driven by a desire to disrupt traditional narratives, his gritty, bold, and experimental style always finds a way of intertwining with deep human expressions. He calls this: “Creating Beautiful Chaos.” His work has been recognized across the world, winning “Best Director” in various festivals including Atlantic Bridge Festival (Amsterdam), AIMAFF (Athens) and BIA (Barcelona). His body of work includes his latest short “The Female Side Effect,” a dark, social critique thriller against pharmaceutical companies and the lack of studies on women’s bodies, as well as commercials for Cholas X Chulas, Once, Brujas, Skydive Puerto Rico and Tourism of Ibiza.
Director:
2020 A Traveller's Guide To Happiness
2022 Melody of a Sorrow Heart
2023 The Female Side Effect
Director of Photography:
2020 A Traveller's Guide To Happiness
2022 Melody of a Sorrow Heart
2023 The Female Side Effect
Executive Producer:
2020 A Traveller's Guide To Happiness
2022 Melody of a Sorrow Heart
2023 The Female Side Effect
Writer:
2020 A Traveller's Guide To Happiness
2022 Melody of a Sorrow Heart
2023 The Female Side Effect
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.