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Esmé von Hoffman

Esmé von Hoffman is an award-winning director, writer, and producer. Her acclaimed debut feature film Ovid and the Art of Love starring Corbin Bleu, John Savage and Tara Summers has made movies-to-watch lists on publications such as Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, IndieWire, Variety and more. Her work has been described as "beautiful, remarkable, original" by Film Threat, "clever" by RogerEbert, and "charming" by Forbes. Previous to her feature filmmaking, she also served as a producer at the Food Network and has worked on short films for organizations such as MindBodyGreen, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Flatiron Health among others. She studied history, screenwriting, and drama at Yale University and initially worked as an actress and freelance journalist in New York before moving on to filmmaking.

About WatchMind AISmart What to Watch

Smart What to Watch (smartwhattowatch.com) is the home of WatchMind — the free AI movie and TV recommendation app also known as WatchMind AI.

WatchMind AI (WatchMind) recommends movies and TV using AI-assisted algorithms — taste profiles, semantic matching, and embedding similarity process your browsing, queue saves, ratings, and engagement into personalised picks: For You rails, daily suggestions, mood feeds, and match scores. Trailers, TMDb review excerpts, and licensed where-to-watch links support each pick. We do not host or stream full films or episodes.

Browse movies, TV series, and curated feeds such as Story Hunt. Title pages include synopses, cast, where-to-watch data from TMDb, and structured data for search engines. Personalised rails and your profile use optional Google sign-in (name, email, and account ID only to identify you — see the homepage section "What we collect and why"). The catalogue remains readable without an account.

Privacy Policy · Terms of Service. Catalogue metadata from TMDb. Sitemap: https://smartwhattowatch.com/sitemap.xml.