Tom Kalin Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1962 in Illinois
Occupation:: Co-producer, Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and gay-rights activist Tom Kalin is a relatively new, but rapidly rising figure in contemporary gay cinema. His debut feature Swoon (1992) was a compelling, highly stylized, even a tad surreal look at a notorious 1924 murder case in which two wealthy homosexuals...Read More

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Savage Grace

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Editor

Actors: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Dancy, Elena Anaya

Synopsis: Adapted from the nonfiction book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson, Tom Kalin's Savage Grace recounts the true crime tale of the death of Barbara Baekeland. Stephen Dillane stars as Brooks Baekeland, the son of the man who invented Bakelite, one of the early forms of plastic. As the family Read More

5/30/08
Office Killer

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Barbara Sukowa, Michael Imperioli

Synopsis: Photographer Cindy Sherman, who often uses motifs from exploitation films in her work, pays witty tribute to slasher films in this satiric horror-comedy. Dorine Douglas (Carol Kane) has spent 16 years at the bottom of the totem pole as a copy editor for Constant Consumer magazine when, due Read More

1997
I Shot Andy Warhol

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton, Stephen Dorff

Synopsis: The true story of Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who became notorious after shooting art world icon Andy Warhol, is portrayed in this fact-based drama. In an attempt to present a fair assessment of her actions, writer-director Mary Harron focuses on Solanas' troubled life, from her Read More

1996
Go Fish

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Migdalia Melendez, Guinevere Turner

Synopsis: This hit arthouse ensemble piece traces the romantic and political ups and downs of a group of multicultural Chicago lesbians. The central story involves an unlikely romance between Max (Guinevere Turner), a hip young babe, and Ely (V.S. Brodie), a slightly older woman involved in a long-term Read More

1994
Swoon

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby, Michael Stumm

Synopsis: Tom Kalin directed this cool and aloof black-and-white study of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, a case told before in two previous films -- Rope and Compulsion. In 1924, in Chicago, Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two 18-year-olds, kidnapped and murdered the 13-year-old Bobby Franks Read More

9/11/92

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