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Columnist: Ed M. Koziarski

Looby’s short ‘Lollywood’ doc screens at Slamdance
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Looby’s short ‘Lollywood’ doc screens at Slamdance

by Ed M. Koziarski Jan 2, 2013
TODD LOOBY’S short documentary Lollywood, about a teenage filmmaker and war orphan at Liberia Mission, Inc. screens Jan. 20 and 23 in the Slamdance Film Festival.Looby’s nar...
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Paralympic sprinter Katy Sullivan stars in short film
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Paralympic sprinter Katy Sullivan stars in short film

by Ed M. Koziarski Dec 20, 2012
PARALYMPIC SPRINTER AND ACTRESS Katy Sullivan co-stars with Chicago veteran character actor Ron Dean in non-profit Blue Damen Pictures’ short film, Recalculating, directed by ...
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McNaughton/Jones return to horror with ‘The Harvest’

McNaughton/Jones return to horror with ‘The Harvest’

By Ed M. Koziarski Dec 12, 2012
Director John McNaughton and producer Steven A. Jones were in lower Manhattan, poised to return to the horror thriller genre after a 20-year absence, when Hurricane Sandy struck...
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Music Box tops distributors in Spirit Awards nods

Music Box tops distributors in Spirit Awards nods

By Ed M. Koziarski Dec 7, 2012
Chicago-based Music Box Films leads independents distributors Film Independent’s Spirit Awards with seven nominations, behind only Fox Searchlight’s nine nominations in over...
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Borowski’s ‘Panzram’ serial killer doc out on DVD
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Borowski’s ‘Panzram’ serial killer doc out on DVD

By Ed M. Koziarski Dec 5, 2012
SERIAL KILLER SPECIALIST John Borowski (H.H. Holmes, Albert Fish) has released streaming and DVD versions of his third documentary, Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengea...
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American Masters broadcast for Hercules Joffrey doc

American Masters broadcast for Hercules Joffrey doc

By Ed M. Koziarski Nov 30, 2012
Following his 2011 Bill T. Jones: A Good Man, Bob Hercules of Media Process Group will have his second American Masters premiere Dec. 28 when his documentary Joffrey: Mavericks ...
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Ross’ drama one of 5 nominees for Gotham fest prize
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Ross’ drama one of 5 nominees for Gotham fest prize

by Ed M. Koziarski Nov 26, 2012
MUMBLECORE PRACTITIONER Frank V. Ross’ romantic drama Tiger Tale in Blue is one of five nominees for the Nov. 26 Gotham Independent Film Awards’ Best Film Not Playing at a T...
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Siegel teams with Kartemquin for Muhammad Ali doc
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Siegel teams with Kartemquin for Muhammad Ali doc

by Ed M. Koziarski Nov 14, 2012
DOCUMENTARIAN BILL SIEGEL producer director of the Oscar nominated The Weather Underground is directing the ITVS-backed, Kartemquin-produced documentary The Trials of Muhammad A...
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Director Wexler develops thriller as his third feature
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Director Wexler develops thriller as his third feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Nov 2, 2012
BORIS WEXLER (Roundabout American) of Escape Films is developing the thriller feature Chat, about a severely light-averse father searching the world of online adult chat for his...
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Rachel Cook’s doc opens Friday’s Social Change Fest
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Rachel Cook’s doc opens Friday’s Social Change Fest

By Ed M. Koziarski Oct 4, 2012
THE PREMIERE OF RACHEL COOK’S documentary, The Microlending Film Project, is being featured at the Oct. 5-7 Chicago International Social Change Film Festival The story is abou...
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Improv actor Alex Beh directs his first feature here

Improv actor Alex Beh directs his first feature here

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 24, 2012
L.A.-based “Funny or Die” website regular and Winnetka native Alex Beh is back in town as writer, director and star of his debut feature Warren. The coming-of-age love story...
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’51º South’ web series visits remote Falkland Islands

’51º South’ web series visits remote Falkland Islands

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 20, 2012
When former Columbia College classmates Jamie Gallant, now an associate producer at DDB, and British native Vern Cummins first visited the Falkland Islands last year, “we reco...
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Music Box hosts United Film Festival Sept. 22-27
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Music Box hosts United Film Festival Sept. 22-27

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 19, 2012
THE UNITED FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box Theatre Sept. 22-27 with a program that includes some 19 narrative and documentary features and 21 shorts. Some highlights are ...
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New HBO Go digital airs ‘Single Long’ comedy series

New HBO Go digital airs ‘Single Long’ comedy series

by Ed M. Koziarski Sep 13, 2012
Jack Lawrence Mayer, Sarra Jahedi and Ed Hausman were a year out of the University of Chicago when they created the comedy pilot Single Long, based in part on a weekly web serie...
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Region’s only gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm

Region’s only gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 13, 2012
Since July, Midwest Camera Car has begun offering the region’s only locally-available gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm: a Russian Arm from Toronto-based Filmotechnic Canada....
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MBC to screen Media Burn’s rare Studs Terkel shows

MBC to screen Media Burn’s rare Studs Terkel shows

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 3, 2012
Among the achievements of four-time Emmy winner, video activist and documentarian Tom Weinberg is his massive Media Burn Independent Video Archive, which boasts the largest coll...
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Feature doc in progress about airline crash survivor
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Feature doc in progress about airline crash survivor

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 29, 2012
KY DICKENS is raising finishing funds for her second feature documentary Sole Survivor. The film follows George Lamson, the only person to live through the 1985 crash of Galaxy ...
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Crime thriller is Marchetti’s one shot to direct

Crime thriller is Marchetti’s one shot to direct

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 20, 2012
“It’s kind of like the world is closing in on you,” aspiring filmmaker Jack Marchetti says, “until it’s like you’re looking through a very tiny straw.” Marchetti h...
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Music underscores Claxton’s Draftfcb writing workshops

Music underscores Claxton’s Draftfcb writing workshops

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 17, 2012
The grand piano he happened upon at Newberry Library turned John Claxton’s plans for a writing workshop into something he says “is at least a hybrid, if not fairly unique. I...
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Ghazi’s Arab American ‘Fordson’ doc to DVD release
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Ghazi’s Arab American ‘Fordson’ doc to DVD release

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 16, 2012
FORDSON THE MOVIE, Rashid Ghazi’s Ruth Leitman-scripted documentary about an Arab American football team in Dearborn, Michigan fasting for Ramadan as they train to play their ...
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