A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Rochester, New York, USA
Jacob French (he/him) is an internationally recognized filmmaker and performer. He has a BFA in Film Production from the Rochester Institute of Technology School of Film and Animation. French has garnered accolades for his writing, directing, and acting in both film and theatre. Jacob grew up just outside of Rochester NY and has had a love of storytelling since he was very young. His love for storytelling led him to start making films in 1st grade and he hasn’t stopped since. In that time he has made over 300 films.
Director:
2023 Unlucky
2024 Sketchy Characters
2025 Chicken House
Director of Photography:
2023 Unlucky
2024 Sketchy Characters
2025 Chicken House
Editor:
2023 Unlucky
2024 Sketchy Characters
2025 Chicken House
Writer:
2023 Unlucky
2024 Sketchy Characters
2025 Chicken House
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.