A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Louisville, Kentucky
Brandon Stewart was born May 24th in Louisville, Kentucky. He was raised in Carrollton, Kentucky and attended Carroll County Public Schools. He is the son of Melanie Tomlinson Stewart and Mike Stewart. He has two brothers, Ryan Stewart and Tyler Stewart. Stewart appeared on-stage throughout his time in school, then landed on American Idol (2002) during Season 12, after appearing as an opening act for George Jones' Farewell Tour. He graduated Carroll County High School in May of 2013. Stewart attended college at Bellarmine University before transferring to the New York Film Academy. He now resides in Burbank, California. Stewart found his passion after launching his talent/brand social agency in 2020, that has gone on to earn more than 16 billion views worldwide, launching hundreds of careers, and entertaining hundreds of millions of subscribers across 63 new media channels. Now a producing partner at XRM Media, and the founder of Brandon Studios, located in Burbank, California. He has been forging 'fingertip entertainment' that breaks the algorithm, creating viral videos on apps like TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and even former social focused sites like Vine, Musically, and Twitter. Stewart is bridging the gap between Gen Z and Gen Alpha's shorter attention spans, and traditional viewing trends for Boomers and Millennials. Stewart's Brandon TV streaming app is the next phase in his media strategy, combining social media and streaming all in one place. A community that gamifies the streaming experience, with the reality TV genre becoming the conduit that starts it all. The first series to premiere on the app was titled Mad House (2023) and was a huge success, garnering over 192M views in 5 days across social media.
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.