A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Paul Vincent Santoli
Birthplace:
Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
Born:
March 22, 1994
Paul Santoli was born in Massapequa, Long Island, in an Italian household. Growing up watching Seinfeld at a young age, he soon fell in love with sitcoms and comedy. He began his career doing standing up comedy on Long Island at the age of 18 but soon found a deeper passion for acting. Looking up to actors like Marlon Brando, Robin Williams, Adam Sandler, and Shia LaBeouf, he decided to take his talents to the next level and attend Stella Adlers School of Acting in NYC. He studied at this school, along with HB studios. After writing and acting in over 40 of his own sketch comedies (Doughnuts Productions - Seasons 1 & 2), he began to write more serious pieces. His short film "Leave it All Behind(2018)" which he wrote, directed and starred in earned him an award for best actor and also an interview on Msgr. Jim Lisante's radio show in New York City. Two months later, he decided to move to Los Angeles and continue his career on the West Coast. He recently shot a commercial for BoomBoom, Powerade, and is working on his feature film "Because of Mika" which he wrote with Cooper Tomlinson. He starred in the found footage thriller "Milk & Serial" (2024) directed by Curry Barker.
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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.