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.
"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
starring:
Shamrock Mcshane, Drew Blair, Scot Davis, Matt Devine produced
by: Georg Koszulinski, Elizabeth Slagsvol executive
producer: Jeff G. Peters assistant director: Mike
Mcshane music: Desperanto written & directed by:
Georg Koszulinski
DEAD
BUFFALO SOUNDTRACK CD RELEASE
Indie band, Desperanto, releases their collection
of 15 tracks culled from the motion pictures Dead Buffalo,
Immokalee U.S.A., and Road to Katahdin. The
compilation also includes 4 previously unreleased
tracks. Puchase
here.
A special presentation of the
film and the cd release will take place March 8th at 5:00pm at
the All Saints
Cinema in Tallahassee, FL, with a reception to
follow at the Fermentation Lounge. For more information, contact
Jeff G. Peters.
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.
A host of festivals and universities will
be presenting the film Spring/09. For booking info, please
contact
us.
"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
DEAD
BUFFALO NEARING COMPLETION:
Dead
Buffalo examines American culture through the eyes of the terminally
ill Charlie Johnson.
Dusty (Drew
Blair) agrees to take his terminally-ill father, Charlie
Johnson, (Shamrock Mcshane) on
a road trip from Florida to the Great Plains of the West.
Uncle Bob (Scot Davis) is a
lonely man. He enjoys visitors and cold beer.
Dusty's brother, Dennis,
(Matt Devine) curates the local poetry jam, but attendance
is
often fickle.
AMERICA
IN PICTURES & ITS SEQUEL, FRAGMENTS FROM AN ENDLESS WAR AVAILABLE
ONLINE:
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.
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
Documentaryat the
Charlotte Film Festival, Best
Documentary at the Somewhat North of Boston Film
Festival and Docufest Atlanta awarded
Georg
Koszulinski Best
Director.
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.
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.
The feature-length documentary is an account of
migrant farmworkers in the U.S.A.More dates to follow,
FALL2008/WINTER2009 View the Trailer
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.
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.More screenings for 2008 have been
announced. UPDATE
10.24.2007 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
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.
"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
SunshineState'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.
Koszulinski's historical
narrative tells the story of Florida's history from a decidedly
different point of view. Blending archival and original footage, he brings
to life a cast of historical characters spanning over 12,000 years, from
Florida’s ancient Indians to the migrant
farm workers of the 21st century. Meet Osceola and the Seminoles, who
fought alongside escaped slaves in the most costly Indian War in American
History. Unmask Florida’s Ku Klux Klan and don’t forget
about Walt Disney and Henry Flagler – perhaps the two characters most
responsible for the Florida we know today. “Think you know
Florida?
Think again. See‘Cracker Crazy’ for an eye-opening experience.”
(Paul
Ortiz, Author/Historian, University of California)
May 6 2009 Immokalee U.S.A. screens as an Opening Night Selection
at the FilmArtFestival Mecklenburg-Pomerania,
Germany
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
April 18 2009
2:00 pm Immokalee U.S.A. screens at Selby Library Auditorium,
Sarasota, FL presented by Sarasota/ Manatee Farmworker
Supporters
April 14 2009 4:00
pm Immokalee
U.S.A. screens at George Mason University's Immigration Film
Series, with guest speaker, Georg
Koszulinski
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.
October
29th 2008 Cracker Crazy screens at Dudley Cinemas,
Venice, CA
October
28th 2008 Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the University of
Connecticut's Social Justice
Week
September
27th 2008 Immokalee U.S.A. screens at the Charlotte International Film
Festival Panel
discussion to follow screening, "Documentary: Stories Never
Told"
September
25th 2008 Immokalee U.S.A. screening in Columbia,
SC, location TBA
September
24th 2008 Immokalee U.S.A. screens at Loose Screws, St.
Augustine, FL
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.
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
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
April 27
- May 1
2007 World
Premiere Koszulinski's experimental short,
America in
Pictures at the Athens International Film &
Video Festival Athens, OH
April 28
2007 Substream
Films at the
Florida Voices Book
Fair 10:00 am to 4:00
pm Gainesville, FL
