About Us
Cold Chicago Productions, run by Warren Leming, Kurt Jacobsen and Hugh Iglarsh, in association with fiscal agent Near North West Arts Council of
Chicago, produces shoestring-budget guerrilla documentaries, videos, theater, and, occasionally, unholy blends of all the above. Documentaries include the multiple award-winning "American Road" (104 min), "The Milagro
Man: The Irrepressible Multicultural Life and Literary Times of John Nichols" (78 min), "Velvet Prisons: Russell Jacoby on American Academe" (55 min) and "Clancy Sigal: Hollywood Blacklist to 'A' List"(82 min). Our productions have screened at The American Documentary Film Festival, Oxford International Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Santa Fe Film Festival, USA Film Festival, Santa Fe International Film Festival, Sedona International Film Festival, Louisville International Film Festival, Albuquerque Film and Music Experience, Virginia Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival, Sunscreen Film Festival, Route 66 Film Festival, Long Island Film Festival, New York Independent Film Festival and many more. Current projects include a documentary retrospective on the meaning and legacy of the 1960s from the viewpoints of activists.
Kurt Jacobsen has published a dozen 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 7 documentaries. He is also a producer of 'Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing, The Road is All' (Bulletproof Films).
Hugh Iglarsh, co-producer of "Velvet Prisons" and "Ed Asner: On Stage and Off", is a Chicago-based writer who contributes regularly to New City, Counterpunch and other periodicals.
ASSOCIATES
Jan Mueller, chief editor for At The Movies, worked on American Road and Velvet Prisons.
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