A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Benjamin Turner is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and educator whose bold, unflinching storytelling has earned recognition at BAFTA-qualifying festivals. As the Executive Director of Spit Game, he has built a pioneering creative platform that develops emerging talent while producing films that challenge social norms and push artistic boundaries. His work - including 'The Nudes (2024)' and 'Help! I Think My Teacher is Racist... (2024)' - has been praised for its fearless approach to race, power, and youth identity. Known for blending dark humor, heightened realism, and raw performances, Turner crafts stories that feel urgent, visceral, and ruthlessly authentic. Beyond film, he leads Rap Club Productions C.I.C., transforming classrooms through rap education while mentoring the next generation of creatives. With Spit Game expanding into music, talent development, and high-caliber filmmaking, Turner is at the forefront of redefining youth-led British cinema.
Director:
2024 Help! I Think My Teacher is Racist
2024 The Nudes
2025 Afterglow
2025 Dead Fun
Producer:
2024 Help! I Think My Teacher is Racist
2024 The Nudes
2025 Afterglow
2025 Dead Fun
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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.