Tom Kalin
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 4, 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Movies
- 19
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2021 | Corona Film Club | Self |
| 2012 | United in Anger: A History of ACT UP | Self |
| 1996 | This Road Will Never End | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2019 | 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing | Director |
| 2017 | FAKE! | Director |
| 2016 | True Believer | Director |
| 2014 | Ashes | Director |
| 2013 | Sublime Objective, Mirror Mirror | Director |
| 2007 | Savage Grace | Director |
| 1999 | Third Known Nest | Director |
| 1997 | Office Killer | Screenplay |
| 1997 | I hung back, held fire, danced and lied | Director |
| 1996 | I Shot Andy Warhol | Producer |
| 1994 | Confirmed Bachelor | Director |
| 1993 | Geoffrey Beene 30 | Writer, Director |
| 1992 | Swoon | Director, Writer |
| 1992 | Nation | Director, Writer |
| 1991 | finally destroy us | Director |
| 1989 | They Are Lost to Vision Altogether | Director |
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