About UsCold Chicago Productions, jointly run by Warren Leming and Kurt Jacobsen, in association with fiscal agent Near North West Arts Council of
Chicago, produces shoestring-budget guerrilla documentaries, videos, theater, and, occasionally, blends of all the above. Documentary projects include the recently completed "American Road" (108 min. 2011), "Velvet Prisons:
Russell Jacoby on American Academia," with co-producer Hugh Iglarsh, (60 min. 2012), and "Milagro
Man: The Irrepressible Multicultural Life and Literary Adventures of John Nichols," due for completion in Summer 2012. Other film projects in the works include a feature length look at the sinister sway of eugenic ideas in American life, and an exploration of the yippie-to-yuppie myth. |
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PRODUCERS
Kurt Jacobsen has published nine books and written about cinema for periodicals ranging from the Chicago Reader to Film Comment to the London Guardian. He has worked on documentaries in the US and Europe, including as co-producer and co-writer of the forthcoming ‘The Legend of Charlotte Bach’ from Malachite Productions in the UK. Warren Leming is a former member of the Second City Touring Company, musical director and actor with Paul Sills' Story Theater Company, a founder of the band Wilderness Road (Columbia and Warner Brothers), a theater director, author of several books, and creator, with Denis Mueller, of seven earlier documentaries. ASSOCIATES Jan Mueller, chief editor for At The Movies, has worked on American Road and Velvet Prisons. Hugh Iglarsh, coproducing Velvet Prisons, is a Chicago-based writer. Our good friends at Bulletproof Film, inc. |
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