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In memory of my dad

Lenny Kornberg

February 8, 1950 – January 3, 2026

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I first had the idea for this when I was thirteen years old. I sat down with my dad and tried to explain it — a place online where people who genuinely love movies, games, and the things behind them could gather, write, argue, and find each other. He listened. He always listened.

At twenty-two, I tried to make it real. I got quotes from professional studios. The cost was prohibitive — somewhere out beyond what a twenty-two-year-old could justify. The idea sat. I kept the notes.

My dad had a long career in Hollywood — years of real work, real relationships, real expertise — but you would never fully know it from his screen credits alone. That gap between what someone contributes and what gets recorded has stuck with me ever since.

In the hospital, my dad aspirated, and he passed away. I didn’t write code for a long time after that.

What changed is that now, building any of this is finally within reach. Tools that didn’t exist a few years ago let one person do what used to require a team. So I’m building it — Filmarian — for the three subjects he and I would have spent hours on. Films. Games. The platforms and people making everything else.

I’m doing this for him. I would have wanted him to see it.

— Sam Kornberg

About Filmarian

A home for film & TV, built from the inside.

My father was an executive at Universal Studios while I was growing up. He had an extensive career in Hollywood — real relationships, real craft, real history — but you wouldn’t know the full weight of it just from his screen credits. That always felt like a loss. Credits are a thin record of a deep life.

Filmarian is dedicated to him, and to everyone whose contribution to film and television is larger than what any database has ever captured.

I also have a daughter who isn’t yet a year old. I’m already excited to show her so many movies — the ones that shaped me, the ones my father loved, and the ones we’ll discover together. Filmarian is for her too.

The discovery gap

There still isn’t a place that organically surfaces older work to a new generation. Algorithms optimize for what you’ve already seen; social feeds reward what’s new. The films and shows that shaped cinema — the ones a forty-year veteran would tell you about over dinner — get quieter every year.

Features like the quotes system and trivia games are designed specifically to change that. A great line, a strange fact, an unexpected connection — these become doorways into films people might never have found on their own.

Coming soon — filmography.me

A place for anyone who has worked in entertainment — whether they have screen credits or not — to showcase their working history. Every PA, every production coordinator, every exec whose name never appeared on a poster deserves a page. That’s what filmography.me is for.

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