A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
London
Joe Crabtree is a writer, director and producer working in film and theatre. After leaving school, he worked in construction before solo travelling around the world. Highlights include staying on an ex-rodeo champion’s ranch in Southern Idaho, catching huge waves on a desolate beach on the pacific coast of Mexico, and being chased down a beach by a stampeding cow in North Goa, India. Since returning to the UK, he has had a passion for telling exciting stories through the visual medium of film. His films have been shown at festivals on four continents and he is currently developing two short films, ‘The Men and The Bath' and 'Authenticity for Sale'. Besides film, Joe loves dancing to Northern Soul music, following Middlesbrough F.C., and slow-cooking food.
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.