A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Kokchetav, USSR (Kazakhstan)
Born:
March 27, 1978
Lado Okhotnikov was born in Kazakhstan and grew up in Tatarstan. In his childhood and teenage years, he trained in Greco-Roman wrestling under the guidance of his father, who was also his coach. He repeatedly won regional championships. In 2001, Lado graduated from the Directing Faculty of VIPPKRK, a branch of VGIK (the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography), with a degree in film directing. While still a student, he began staging productions and started his first entrepreneurial ventures. He later became interested in cryptocurrency and virtual worlds. He began creating projects in 2000. In 2022, he launched an international GameFi project, now known as Meta Whale. In 2024, he launched a new ecosystem called Holiverse, which also includes the film company Lado Film. Lado’s screenwriting debut was his work on the film Holiguards (2025), co-written with Sergey Torchilin and directed by Kevin Spacey. Selected Work: Holiguards (2025) — Screenwriter and actor. A supernatural action-thriller directed by Kevin Spacey
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.