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SCOTT CAMIL WILL NOT DIE IN
POST-PRODUCTION
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synopsis:
For nearly 40 years, Scott Camil has worked as an
educator and activist visiting classrooms and lecture halls speaking
out against war as “organized murder.” Scott Camil Will Not
Die focuses on Camil's work in these spaces,
examining the intersections between Camil as historical
figure, Camil as educator, and Camil as himself—a complex
individual who struggles with the psychological traumas of war
and refuses to be silenced.
TIMELINE:
1965
Scott Camil enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps, serves twenty
months in Vietnam,
and is twice wounded.
1969
As
a student at Miami-Dade
Community
College,
Camil is interrogated by F.B.I. agents.
1971
Camil
testifies at the Winter Soldier Investigation, and later before
congress, to war crimes both witnessed and committed. He acts as a
founding member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. (VVAW)
1971-73
Camil is marked as a “key activist”, by the F.B.I. and becomes the
target of a widening investigation. Federal agents posing as
acitivists have by now infiltrated the VVAW.
1973
As a member of the Gainesville
8, Camil and his peers are charged with attempting to disrupt the
1972 Republican national convention. Without presenting a defense,
all eight defendants are found not guilty.
1975
Camil is shot in the back by Federal agents and is again taken to
trial. A Federal grand jury finds Camil not guilty and recommends
the agents who shot him be tried for attempted murder.
1987-1990
Vets for Peace invites Camil to take part in a fact-finding trip to
Nicaragua—an
experience that renews Camil’s activism. He returns as a
guest of the Sandanist government, as an official observer
of the 1990 elections.
1993/94
Camil returns to Vietnam
as a U.S.
representative of the Vietnam Friendship Village Project. With the
aid of a North Vietnamese general, Camil returns to to Di Lôc, the
village where he took part in the massacre of 292 people.
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A HIGHWAY CALLED 301
COMPLETED
an audio/visual archaeology of
U.S. Highway 301
U.S. Route 301, designated in 1932 as a spur of
U.S. Route 1, runs from Sarasota, Florida northward through the Atlantic
states and ends just beyond the Delaware Bridge.
Presently, one-thousand and ninety-nine miles of highway connect small
towns, bisect otherwise rural landscapes, and provide a vital corridor for
commerce and travel.
A multitude of abandoned structures pepper the
landscape and provide evidence of a cultural apparatus that extends
both spatially (alongside the highway) and temporally (into
past-present-future). What can the
fragmentary evidence of remaining structures, or archi-textures,
tell us about the past-present-future cultures who occupy these
spaces? This audio-visual study seeks to answer this question, less
in the form of visual-anthropology (ethnographic documentary) and more in
the uncharted territory of visual-archaeology
(science-non-fiction).
IMMOKALEE U.S.A. & CRACKER
CRAZY TELEVISION PREMIERE
The Documentary Channel and
Substream Films have partnered to bring Cracker Crazy: Invisibile
Histories of the Sunshine State and Immokalee U.S.A. to
television audiences nationwide. The July 13th television premiere
will bring Georg Koszulinski's subversive documentaries to over 21 million
homes.
DEAD BUFFALO TO HAVE ITS
EAST COAST PREMIERE
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The Philadelphia Independent Film
Festival and the Maine International Film Festival are set to screen Substream Film's latest
production. |
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"Scored to a terrific
soundtrack by Indie band Desperanto, Dead Buffalo examines American culture
through the eyes of Charlie Johnson, terminally ill but embarking on
a road trip from the American south to the Great Plains of the West,
reluctantly accompanied by his son, Dusty. A road movie with a real
ending, Dead Buffalo is a testament to native American
resiliency—in both our culture and as embodied in the very process
of filmmaking." (program notes, 12th Annual Maine
International Film Festival) |
Dusty (Drew
Blair) and Charlie Johnson (Shamrock Mcshane) play the
father/son duo in Dead
Buffalo
IMMOKALEE U.S.A. WINTER/SPRING 2009
UPDATE:
The 21st Annual U.S. Super 8 Film + Digital
Video Festival recently awarded Immokalee U.S.A. BEST
DOCUMENTARY.
"The
moving plight of Latino migrant workers in a typical southern Florida town
is chronicled with intelligence, sensitivity and restraint in this low-key
but accessibly engaging, powerfully provocative new social-economic
documentary from one of the state's (and indeed the States') most
promising non-fiction filmmakers. Very seldom have the “fruits” of labour
seemed so hard-won, and, on reflection, so very bitter." -
Program Notes, National Media Museum/Bradford Film
Festival, UK
AMERICA
IN PICTURES & ITS SEQUEL, FRAGMENTS FROM AN ENDLESS WAR AVAILABLE
ONLINE:
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Georg Koszulinski’s experimental travelogue film,
America in Pictures
continues its international tour with the Ann Arbor Film
Festival but the film is now
available for online viewing here. |
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Comprised entirely of 16mm found footage,
Fragments from an Endless War continues where AIP
left off, examining an era that has been defined by a state
of permanent economic and military warfare. View it here. |
NOVEMBER 2008:
Immokalee
U.S.A.,
a feature length documentary chronicling the lives of migrant farmworkers
in the United
States,
was recently awarded Best
Documentary at
the
Charlotte Film Festival, Best
Documentary at the Somewhat North of Boston Film
Festival and Docufest Atlanta awarded
Georg
Koszulinski Best
Director.
"The immense power of this
documentary comes from Koszulinski's ability to show rather than tell.
This movie will haunt you for days."
- Georgia Menides, Film
Threat
"Much more than just some kind of inside
look at legalized slave labor... This truly
is an outstanding piece of documentary
filmmaking… Certainly one of
the best independent films I have seen this
year."
-
Josh Samford, Rogue Cinema
“Koszulinski is a real artist.
Immokalee, U.S.A., is one of the most
beautiful docs I've ever
seen."
- Mike Everleth,
Badlit.com
"...An aesthetically pure
documentary in the vérité tradition... [provides] an
opening for self-reflection rather than didactic
sermonizing."
-
Maine International Film
Festival
“A
skillfully made documentary which highlights the plight of a group of
largely ignored and forgotten people."
- Simon Hill, Celluloid
Dreams
“…a
work of immense humility and compassion. Indeed, there is a master's
hand
at play here, in what is the best documentary we've seen
in
a very, very, very long time.”
- Cinemainacave.com
"It's a study of the American
Dream, and it's a much-needed splash
of cold water in your
face."
-
Drew Gemmer, The Portland
Mercury
"There's a cinematic effect
here that will color your whole day, staying visible whatever you
do... It’s what film-in-life
is all about, a balance of
discovery and social
engagement. It’s intense.”
- Ted Goranson, Filmsfolded.com
FALL 2008
UPDATE:
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CRACKER CRAZY was recently nominated by the American Library
Association as a “Notable Video
of the Year.” Learn
more about the nomination and past winners of
the ALA’s video award. Cracker Crazy was also recently added to the
National Film Network’s list of titles available for
distribution. The NFN
focuses their efforts towards universities and libraries, including
rights to public exhibition.
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AMERICA IN PICTURES,
Koszulinski’s experimental travelogue film, recently screened as an
Opening Night Selection at the 46th Annual Ann Arbor
Film Festival. The film
was selected as part of the festival’s international tour of
“festival favorites,” bringing the Avant-Garde to Universities,
Museums and Microcinemas across the U.S. and abroad.
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The feature-length documentary is an account of
migrant farmworkers in the U.S.A. More dates to follow,
FALL2008/WINTER2009
View the Trailer |
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GOD’S CARTOONIST,
a feature-length documentary exploring the comic art of Jack Chick,
the world’s most widely-distributed underground comic artist,
announced as Substream’s latest DVD acquisition:
For nearly
forty years, Chick Publications under the leadership of Jack T.
Chick has published nearly one billion religious tracts (palm sized
comics) that are now distributed in over 100 languages around the
world. In the process, Jack Chick's name has become revered in the
world of fundamentalist teachings, reviled among dozens of major
religions and banned as hate literature in several countries
including Canada. Learn
More at the film’s official
website. |
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FEBRUARY
2008
Cracker Crazy
earns Best Documentary honors from the 2008 United States Super 8 Film + Video
Festival.
Koszulinski’s experimental film, America in Pictures was
recently announced as an Official Selection to the 46th Annual Ann Arbor Film
Festival.
A new
review of Silent Voyeur by Rogue
Cinema.
WINTER
2008
Post-production
is nearing completion on Immokalee U.S.A. It’s premiere date TBA. Cracker Crazy was recently
honored with a Spirit of Independence Award at the 22nd
Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
FALL
2007
Principal
Photography has been completed on the upcoming Substream release,
Immokalee
U.S.A., a documentary film examining the small migrant
farmworking community in South Florida.
LEARN MORE
Download
the Trailer:
SMALL 53MB
LARGE 230MB
UPDATE
9.01.2007
Cracker
Crazy continues its
exhibition at Festivals, Independent Theatres and Microcinemas across the
Southeast. America
in Pictures was recently awarded Best Experimental Short
at the 4th Annual Atlanta Underground Film
Festival. Cracker Crazy
was honored with the Indie Grit Award
from the Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, SC.
Preproduction has begun on the Substream Films production, Immokalee,
U.S.A. - a documentary focusing on migrant farmworkers
throughout the United States.
The
Cracker Crazy ROAD SHOW -
contact us to book a date -
more pics here.
DOWNLOAD THE TRAILER
"Wielding his
(Super) 8mm camera like a pickax, Miami-bred filmmaker Georg
Koszulinski... exposes every little-known fact, racial injustice and flat
out catastrophe along the way... should probably be mandatory
viewing
for all Sunshine state residents."
- Jacksonville's Folio
Weekly, March 2007
"...A
brave and poignant look at the true history of Florida.
Koszulinski's talent shows through in both his love and animosity for his
home state. "
- Joshua Zeman, Producer, The
Station Agent
"Koszulinski
did his homework - he plundered state archives for vintage images and
footage to mix with his own original footage... which traces the
Sunshine
State's history from
the earliest inhabitants to the present day."
- The
Tallahassee Democrat, April 20, 2007
“'Cracker'
enters some impossibly foreboding and shockingly unheard of
selections
from the history books... invaluable as a tool to better
understand
how the state came to be."
- Brian
Orndorf, EFilmCritic.com
“Stick a q-tip
in one of Mickey Mouse’s ears and what comes out is ‘Cracker Crazy:’ it’s
not always pretty, but it’s real. Like a tsunami scouring Florida's
coastline, Koszulinski’s latest film wipes away the state’s sanitized
history to reveal the sludge underneath. I loved it.”
-
Jerald T.
Milanich, Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History and author, Florida
Indians from Ancient Times to the Present.
Visit
the substreamfilms Archive |
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August 21, 2010
Workout Video (part I), screens at the
Basement Media Festival
Somerville,
MA |
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August 8, 2010
This is
not a Pipe Bomb, Workout Video (part I), and Ghost screen at
the
Atlanta Shortsfest
Atlanta,
GA |
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July 9-10,
2010
Immokalee U.S.A., Cracker Crazy, Dead Buffalo, & a
preview screening of A Highway Called 301 at the Tallahassee Film
Society's All Saint's Cinema
Tallahassee,
FL |
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April 18 2010,
A
Highway Called 301 filmmaker workshop at the
IndieGrits Film
Festival
Columbia, SC |
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November 18
2009,
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the University of Notre
Dame, South Bend, IN |
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October
8 2009,
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the Harvard Film
Archive, 4:00pm (student screening) & Harvard Kennedy
School, 6:00pm (public screening) as part of the Global Voices
Film Series
Cambridge, MA |
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October 8-31 2009
The
Horror live multi-media performance,every THURS-FRI-SAT, doors at
7:30pm Acrosstown Theatre,
Gainesville, FL |
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October 14-18
2009
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the Jacksonville Latino Film
Festival |
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October 6 2009
Immokalee
U.S.A. screens at the Anthology Film Archives,
NYC |
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October 1 2009,
7:00pm
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at Emerson College/ Cabaret
Campus Center, Boston, MA |
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September 28 2009,
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at Goucher College, Baltimore,
MD |
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September 22 2009, 7:00pm,
Mathews Hall
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN |
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Sept. 11 & 14,
8:00pm
Road to Katahdin screens as part of the Maine
International Film Festival's
traveling shorts
program,
Reel Pizza/Bar Harbor, ME |
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August 30 2009
Dead
Buffalo screens at the Atlanta Underground Film
Festival |
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August
30 2009
Immokalee U.S.A. workshop presentation at the
Alachua County Public Library, Gainesville, FL |
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July 10-19 2009
Dead
Buffalo and Road to Katahdin screen at the Maine International
Film Festival, Waterville, ME
filmmaker(s) in
attendance |
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July 13
2009
World Television premiere of Cracker Crazy and
Immokalee U.S.A. on
The Documentary
Channel |
June 26-28
2009
Immokalee U.S.A. and Fragments from an Endless War
screen at the Last Call Film Festival
Louisville,
KY |
June 25-27
2009
Dead Buffalo screens at the Philadelphia Independent Film
Festival |
May 7-10
2009
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the Maryland Film
Festival
Baltimore,
MD |
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May 6 2009
Immokalee U.S.A. screens as an Opening Night Selection
at the
FilmArtFestival
Mecklenburg-Pomerania,
Germany |
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April 18
2009
Koszulinski's "American Triptych" screens at the Lumina Film Festival
1. America in Pictures
2. Fragments
from an Endless War
3. Road to
Katahdin
Waterville, ME |
April 17
2009
Preview screening of Dead Buffalo at
the
Indie Grits Film Festival
followed by "no-budget filmmaking as a subversive art"
workshop (April 18)
Both events are FREE thanks to The Humanities
Council, Columbia, SC |
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April 18 2009, 2:00
pm
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at Selby Library Auditorium,
Sarasota, FL
presented by Sarasota/
Manatee Farmworker
Supporters |
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April 14 2009, 4:00 pm
Immokalee
U.S.A. screens
at George Mason University's Immigration Film
Series, with guest speaker, Georg
Koszulinski |
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April
9-12 2009
Immokalee U.S.A screens at the Las
Vegas International Film
Festival |
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March 22 2009, 3:00
pm
Immokalee
U.S.A. screens
at College of William & Mary "Global Film and Migration" Film Series,
with guest speaker, Georg Koszulinski |
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March 6-8 2009
Immokalee
U.S.A. screens at the Kent Film Festival,
Kent,
Connecticut |
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March 13-28
2009
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the Bradford International Film
Festival, National Media Museum/Bradford, UK |
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March 8 2009, 5:00
pm
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
of Dead Buffalo at the All
Saints Cinema, Tallahassee, FL
with reception to follow at Fermentation Lounge |
March 6-8
2009
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at Harvest of Hope Fest, St. Augustine, FL |
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February 20-26
2009
America in Pictures & Fragments from an Endless
War screen at the Florida Experimental Film
Festival Gainesville, FL |
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February
19-22 2009
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the Beloit Film
Festival,
Beloit, WI |
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February
20-21 2009
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the U.S. Super 8 Film & Digital Video Film
Festival |
February 16
2009
Cracker Crazy screens at Palm Beach Community
College |
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February 13-22
2009
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the Big Sky Documentary Film
Festival
Missoula, MT |
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February 19-22
2009
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the Macon Film & Video
Festival Macon, GA |
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January
22 2008
Cracker Crazy screens at Alachua
County Public Library/Hawthorne Branch,
Hawthorne,
FL
FREE
EVENT |
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January 9-10 2009
Immokalee
U.S.A.screens at the Tallahassee Film
Society |
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December
7 2008
Cracker Crazy screens at Alachua
County Downtown Public Library,
Gainesville,
FL
FREE
EVENT |
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November
15 2008
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the
Montezuma International Film
Festival, Montezuma, Costa Rica |
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November
7-9 2008
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the Somewhat
North of Boston Film Festival,
Concord,
NH
UPDATE:
"Best
Documentary" awarded to
Immokalee U.S.A. |
Winter 2009
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the
D.C. Labor Film
Festival, Washington,
D.C. |
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October
29th 2008
Cracker Crazy screens at Dudley Cinemas,
Venice, CA |
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October
28th 2008
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the University of
Connecticut's Social Justice
Week |
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September
27th 2008
Immokalee U.S.A.
screens at the Charlotte International Film
Festival
Panel
discussion to follow screening, "Documentary: Stories Never
Told" |
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September
25th 2008
Immokalee U.S.A. screening in Columbia,
SC, location TBA |
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September
24th 2008
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at Loose Screws, St.
Augustine, FL |
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August 23rd
2008
Immokalee U.S.A.
screens at the
4th Annual Docufest Atlanta
UPDATE:
"Best
Director" awarded to
Georg Koszulinski for Immokalee
U.S.A. |
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July
11th-20th 2008
Immokalee U.S.A.
screens at the
11th Annual Maine
International Film Festival |
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May 11
2008
Cracker Crazy at the
Delray Beach Film
Festival
Delray
Beach, FL May 2nd 2008 |
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May
2 2008
Immokalee
U.S.A. screens
at
the
Portland Documentary
&
Experimental Film
Festival |
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April 10
2008
Immokalee
U.S.A. screens
as a work
in progress at
Indie Grits Film
Festival
Columbia,
SC |
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March
25th – 30th
America in
Pictures at the Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI |
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March
22nd 2008
Cracker
Crazy at the
Sunscreen Film
Festival
St.
Petersburg,
FL |
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March 1st
2008
Cracker
Crazy at the
All Saints
Cinema
Tallahassee,
FL |
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February
16 2008
Cracker
Crazy at
the
U.S. Super 8 Film &
Video Festival
Rutgers
University,
NJ
UPDATE:
Cracker
Crazy wins
BEST DOCUMENTARY |
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October
29 2007
Cracker
Crazy returns
to the Fort
Lauderdale Int. Film Festival
UPDATE:
Cracker
Crazy garners a
SPIRIT OF THE INDEPENDENTS
AWARD |
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October
20 2007
Cracker
Crazy at the
Florida Media
Market
Miami, FL |
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October
18 2007
America in
Pictures Opening
Night Selection
at the
10 or
Less Film Festival
Portland, OR |
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October
16 2007
Cracker
Crazy at the
Fort Lauderdale Int. Film
Festival |
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September
29 2007
Cracker
Crazy at
the
Ava Gardner Film Festival
Smithfield,
NC |
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August 31
2007
Cracker
Crazy at
the
Central Florida Film
Festival
Orlando, FL |
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August 24
- August 25
2007
Cracker Crazy & America in
Pictures at the Atlanta Underground
Film
Festival
Atlanta, GA
UPDATE:
America in Pictures
Awarded BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT |
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May 30 -
June 3
2007
Cracker Crazy & America
in
Pictures at the
Indie
Grits Film Festival
Columbia, SC
UPDATE:
Cracker
Crazy Awarded
INDIE GRIT PRIZE |
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April 27
- May 1
2007
World
Premiere
Koszulinski's experimental short,
America in
Pictures
at the Athens International Film &
Video Festival
Athens, OH |
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April 28
2007
Substream
Films at the
Florida Voices Book
Fair
10:00 am to 4:00
pm
Gainesville, FL |
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April 21
2007
Cracker
Crazy at the
Appalachian Film
Festival, Huntington, WV |
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April 20
2007
Cracker
Crazy
All Saints
Cinema,
5:45 pm & 7:30 pm Tallahassee, FL |
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April 18
2007
Cracker
Crazy at the Civic Media Center,
Gainesville, FL |
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March 30
2007
Cracker
Crazy
Loose
Screws,
7:30
pm & 10:00
pm
St.
Augustine,FL |
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Feb 28 -
March 4
2007
Cracker
Crazy & Silent
Voyeur at the MAGA Film and Video Festival
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March 1
2007
The
Votive Pit screens at The Pumelo Independent
Film Festival, Mumbai, India |
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January
09 2007
The
Votive Pit World
Premiere at Southern Fried Flicks Film Festival |
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November
03 2006
Silent
Voyeur screens
at The Video Underground, Boston, MA |
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November
02 2006
Silent
Voyeur at the
Anthology Film Archives, NYC |
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