About

Known credits:
25
Birthday:
1962-03-04
Place of birth:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Tom Kalin

Overview

Tom Kalin (born 1962) is an award-winning screenwriter, film director, producer, and professor of experimental film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.

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 Kalin's work touches on issues of homosexuality (both modern-day 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.

Kalin's 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 graduate-level 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.

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Known for

Acting
2021 Corona Film Club Actor Self 58
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1996 This Road Will Never End Actor Self 58
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Directing
2019 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing Directing Director 58
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2017 FAKE! Directing Director N/A
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2016 True Believer Directing Director N/A
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2014 Ashes Directing Director N/A
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2013 Sublime Objective, Mirror Mirror Directing Director N/A
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2007 Savage Grace Directing Director 58
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1999 Third Known Nest Directing Director 59
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1997 I hung back, held fire, danced and lied Directing Director N/A
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1994 Confirmed Bachelor Directing Director N/A
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1993 Geoffrey Beene 30 Directing Director N/A
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1992 Swoon Directing Director 59
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1992 Nation Directing Director N/A
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1991 finally destroy us Directing Director N/A
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1989 They Are Lost to Vision Altogether Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1997 Office Killer Writing Screenplay 58
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1993 Geoffrey Beene 30 Writing Writer N/A
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1992 Swoon Writing Writer 59
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1992 Nation Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2007 Savage Grace Production Co-Producer 58
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1996 I Shot Andy Warhol Production Producer 59
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1994 Go Fish Production Executive Producer 58
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Editing
2007 Savage Grace Editing Editor 58
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1992 Swoon Editing Editor 59
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