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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  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.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Kalin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Production

Co-Producer:
2007  Savage Grace

Director:
1989  They Are Lost to Vision Altogether
1991  finally destroy us
1992  Nation
1992  Swoon
1993  Geoffrey Beene 30
1997  I hung back, held fire, danced and lied
1999  Third Known Nest
2007  Savage Grace
2013  Sublime Objective, Mirror Mirror
2014  Ashes
2016  True Believer
2017  FAKE!
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

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1989  They Are Lost to Vision Altogether
1991  finally destroy us
1992  Nation
1992  Swoon
1993  Geoffrey Beene 30
1997  I hung back, held fire, danced and lied
1999  Third Known Nest
2007  Savage Grace
2013  Sublime Objective, Mirror Mirror
2014  Ashes
2016  True Believer
2017  FAKE!
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Executive Producer:
1989  They Are Lost to Vision Altogether
1991  finally destroy us
1992  Nation
1992  Swoon
1993  Geoffrey Beene 30
1994  Go Fish
1997  I hung back, held fire, danced and lied
1999  Third Known Nest
2007  Savage Grace
2013  Sublime Objective, Mirror Mirror
2014  Ashes
2016  True Believer
2017  FAKE!
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Producer:
1989  They Are Lost to Vision Altogether
1991  finally destroy us
1992  Nation
1992  Swoon
1993  Geoffrey Beene 30
1994  Go Fish
1996  I Shot Andy Warhol
1997  I hung back, held fire, danced and lied
1999  Third Known Nest
2007  Savage Grace
2013  Sublime Objective, Mirror Mirror
2014  Ashes
2016  True Believer
2017  FAKE!
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Screenplay:
1989  They Are Lost to Vision Altogether
1991  finally destroy us
1992  Nation
1992  Swoon
1993  Geoffrey Beene 30
1994  Go Fish
1996  I Shot Andy Warhol
1997  I hung back, held fire, danced and lied
1997  Office Killer
1999  Third Known Nest
2007  Savage Grace
2013  Sublime Objective, Mirror Mirror
2014  Ashes
2016  True Believer
2017  FAKE!
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Writer:
1989  They Are Lost to Vision Altogether
1991  finally destroy us
1992  Nation
1992  Swoon
1993  Geoffrey Beene 30
1994  Go Fish
1996  I Shot Andy Warhol
1997  I hung back, held fire, danced and lied
1997  Office Killer
1999  Third Known Nest
2007  Savage Grace
2013  Sublime Objective, Mirror Mirror
2014  Ashes
2016  True Believer
2017  FAKE!
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

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TV Production

Director:
2021  Pride

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