A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Jess is a comedy-drama writer, with several original TV and film scripts in active development, including features with Working Title and Mews Films. Jess recently wrote a script for the upcoming third series of Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws (Big Talk for Amazon/BBC One), and two episodes of We Might Regret This, an upcoming comedy series with Roughcut, greenlit for the BBC. Jess’s original comedy Break Clause has been commissioned as a Blap for Channel 4, and will shoot this summer. She has also developed shows for Apple TV+, Netflix, Disney +, BBC and ITV. Jess was selected as one of seven "next generation showrunners" in Chris Chibnall's inaugural Next Generation Showrunner Programme. She recently led a room for Roughcut and regularly works in writers' rooms.Also a short film director, Jess has recently wrapped on directing her late short, starring Edward Bluemel and Mary Beth Barone. Jess has a background in stand-up, and was twice nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award.
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.