A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Ben Young
Birthplace:
Auckland, New Zealand
Born:
August 20, 2010
Ben is a talented young actor who has been involved in multiple theatre productions, TV commercials and short films. He started acting at the tender age of 6 years and quickly developed a passion for storytelling and expressing himself through acting which also led to his interest in directing and other opportunities behind the camera. Ben acted & directed his first short film 'Crash' when he was 11 years old, about two impoverished brothers who are tempted into a life of crime. 'Crash', went on to win two awards: the 2022 NZ Regional IYSFF First Place Winner and the 2023 International Grand Prize Winner. 'Crash' also received accolades for best director, best production design, best editing, and BOP Choice Award. Ben is now 13 years old and currently at high school and will continue to pursue his dream of becoming a successful actor, competitive dancer, singer-songwriter, and filmmaker.
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.