A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Ben Terrell
Birthplace:
Grapevine - Texas - USA
Born:
November 12, 2004
John Benjamin Terrell is a 19 year old filmmaker from Dallas, Texas. He is a rising sophomore attending Biola University in La Mirada, California. Since early adolescence, Terrell has known he wanted to commit his life to cinema. Today, the young, budding filmmaker pursues his life-long dream of filmmaking as an aspiring director, writer, and editor. In 2024, during his freshman year of college, Terrell made a remarkable debut at film festivals nation-wide with the release of his first major short film, the award-winning documentary "Almost Perfect: The 99th Pitch." The acclaimed student sports documentary would notably be broadcasted regionally on television and screened on the jumbotron of Mariners stadium.
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.