A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Houston, Texas, USA
Matthew was born in Houston, Tx. but grew up in the small town of Fredericksburg staying actively involved in theater and sports during middle and high school. He was known as the "thespian jock." Matt continued on pace in college majoring in acting for theater at Texas State University where he was actively involved in many of the theater department's productions but also took strongly to the Greek life on campus. His fellow thespians in school would call him "Frat Matt" when he came around. In 2006, Matthew moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting while at the same time found work for a few indie production companies and stumbled upon producing before starting his own company with fellow producers Christian Sosa and Tyler Glodt in 2008. Since then, Matthew has starred in several indie features, shorts, commercials, and his company has produce one feature, "The Eves," as well as many other shorts. Matthew co-owns a production company called Conation Films where they primarily shoot all their films in the state of Texas where Matthew is a native.
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.