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 inter-national tour of “festival favorites,” bringing the
Avant-Garde to Universities, Museums and Microcinemas across the U.S. and
abroad.
IMMOKALEE U.S.A. recently screened as a "work in progress" at the
Indie Grits Film Festival (Columbia, SC) and the Portland Documentary and
Experimental Film Festival.The
feature-length documentary is an account of migrant farmworkers in the
U.S.A.More dates to follow in
FALL2008/WINTER2009View 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)
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
