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SPRING 2008

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/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.

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.  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

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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.
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"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.


CRACKER CRAZY: INVISIBLE HISTORIES OF THE SUNSHINE STATE
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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)

 

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May 11 2008
Cracker Crazy at the
Delray Beach Film Festival
Delray Beach, FL May 2nd 2008

May 2 2008

Immokalee U.S.A. screens

at the Portland Documentary &

Experimental Film Festival

April 10 2008

Immokalee U.S.A. screens

as a work in progress at

Indie Grits Film Festival

Columbia, SC

March 25th – 30th
America in Pictures at the
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI

March 22nd 2008
Cracker Crazy at the
Sunscreen Film Festival
St. Petersburg, FL

March 1st 2008

Cracker Crazy at the
All Saints Cinema
Tallahassee, FL

February 16 2008
Cracker Crazy at the
U.S. Super 8 Film & Video Festival

Rutgers University, NJ
UPDATE:
Cracker Crazy wins
BEST DOCUMENTARY

October 29 2007
Cracker Crazy returns to the Fort Lauderdale Int. Film Festival
UPDATE:
Cracker Crazy garners a
SPIRIT OF THE INDEPENDENTS AWARD

October 20 2007
Cracker Crazy at the
Florida Media Market
Miami, FL

October 18 2007
America in Pictures Opening Night Selection at the
10 or Less Film Festival
Portland, OR

October 16 2007
Cracker Crazy at the Fort Lauderdale Int. Film Festival

September 29 2007
Cracker Crazy at the
Ava Gardner Film Festival
Smithfield, NC

August 31 2007
Cracker Crazy at the
Central Florida Film Festival
Orlando, FL

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

April 21 2007
Cracker Crazy at the Appalachian Film Festival, Huntington, WV

April 20 2007
Cracker Crazy
All Saints Cinema,
5:45 pm & 7:30 pm Tallahassee, FL

April 18 2007
Cracker Crazy at the Civic Media Center, Gainesville, FL

March 30 2007
Cracker Crazy
Loose Screws,
7:30 pm & 10:00 pm
St. Augustine,FL

Feb 28 - March 4 2007
Cracker Crazy & Silent Voyeur at the MAGA Film and Video Festival

March 1 2007
The Votive Pit
screens at The Pumelo Independent Film Festival, Mumbai, India

January 09 2007
The Votive Pit World Premiere at Southern Fried Flicks Film Festival

November 03 2006
Silent Voyeur screens at The Video Underground, Boston, MA

November 02 2006
Silent Voyeur at the Anthology Film Archives, NYC

 

 

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