A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Hershey, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Born:
January 4, 1992
Aly Spengler is a Philadelphia based Director of Photography, Cinematographer, and Camera Stabilization Specialist. With 13+ years of on-set experience, they've evolved in their levels of expertise through various areas of production, acting not only as a DP, but as gimbal operator and stabilization tech, studio manager, production consultant, and post-production colorist. Through it all, their passion and love remains rooted in the camera department. They have been invited to destinations around the world to document life-changing humanitarian efforts, capture demonstrations of radical movements regarding injustices, and have shot national brand commercial campaigns. Some of Aly's notable commercial clientele have been with Yamaha, Nike, Red Bull, BMW, META, Hendrick's Gin and Absolut. Their documentary feature work can be found on Amazon Prime, HBO Max, and Hulu streaming services. Aly is a non-binary LGBTIQA+ filmmaker and community advocate whose aim is to bring other traditionally marginalized voices, filmmakers, and creative individuals to the forefront - whether it be on set and throughout production, or in front of the camera telling their story.
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.