Tom Kalin

Known for DirectingBorn 1962-03-04 (age 64)Chicago, Illinois, USA

Tom Kalin (born 1962) is an award-winning screenwriter, film director, producer, and professor of experimental film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. His debut feature, Swoon, is considered an integral part of the New Queer Cinema. In addition to his feature work, Kalin has created a number of short films, many of which are collected in the compilations Behold Goliath or The Boy With the Filthy Laugh, Third Known Nest and Tom Kalin Videoworks: Volume 2. Much of Kalin's work touches on issues of homosexuality (both modern-day and historical) and AIDS. He was a member of two AIDS direct action groups, ACT UP and Gran Fury. His work has won much critical acclaim and garnered a number of awards and nominations, including honors from the Berlin International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Fest and a number of gay and lesbian film festivals. Kalin won the Gotham Awards Open Palm Award (for Swoon) and has been nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. Kalin's last project was Savage Grace, Savage Grace tells the story of the 1972 Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case and stars Julianne Moore as Baekeland. Tom Kalin has taught graduate-level filmmaking classes at Columbia University School of the Arts, and is currently lecturing at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. He is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Kalin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Tree Shade

Nation

Pride

I Shot Andy Warhol

Third Known Nest

Savage Grace

Swoon

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Corona Film Club

Office Killer

Go Fish

This Road Will Never End

FAKE!

True Believer

Ashes

Sublime Objective, Mirror Mirror

I hung back, held fire, danced and lied

Confirmed Bachelor

Geoffrey Beene 30

finally destroy us

They Are Lost to Vision Altogether