Tom Kalin

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Tom Kalin born 1962 is an awardwinning screenwriter film director producer and professor of experimental film at European Graduate School in SaasFee 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 Kalins work touches on issues of homosexuality both modernday 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 Kalins 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 graduatelevel 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia