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Fred Koschmann is an independent film editor, writer, and director. He is known for editing Frybread Face and Me (2023) and Rulon (2021) and for directing The Interaction Cowboy (2024).
Early Life
[edit]He was born in Kenosha, WI and grew up in Springfield, IL. He studied English and journalism at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana[1], where he worked at Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival[2] and was a staff writer at the school newspaper the Daily Illini[3].
Career
[edit]in 2006, he moved to New York City where he wrote articles and produced videos for Popular Science magazine. He interned at Men’s Journal and worked as a fact checker and writer at New York Magazine.
He moved to Chicago where he started and ran a festival called Backyard Film and Music Festival[4]. Around 2010, he studied at Chicago Filmmakers under the Academy Award-winning documentary director Bill Siegel[5]. And he directed a short film about Deep Springs College in California called Wild Solitude.
He's edited both documentary and narrative films, including Rulon, directed by Adam Irving, about the Olympic gold medalist in heavy-weight wrestling Rulon Gardner for the Olympic Channel/NBC Sports; Thriller40, directed by Nelson George, a 2023 documentary about the recording of Michael Jackson's album Thriller; and Frybread Face and Me, directed by Billy Luther and executive produced by Taika Waititi[6][7].
He directed a documentary learning what his dad (a world-traveling academic) did for work, called The Interaction Cowboy[8][9]. It aired on PBS stations across the US during the summer of 2024[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fred Koschmann Profile | University of Illinois 150 Years". uofi150.news-gazette.com. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ Lapin, Andrew (2018-04-26). "Ebertfest at 20: Roger Ebert's Film Festival Keeps the Beloved Critic's Passions Alive". IndieWire. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Fred Koschmann Archives". The Daily Illini. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Pullman Hosts Backyard Film & Music Festival". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Fred Koschmann - Visionary Film Editor | Discover His Impactful Work". www.storykeep.com. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ Kennedy, Lisa (2023-03-24). "'Frybread Face and Me' Review: Indigenous Filmmaker Billy Luther's Achy, Amusing Tale of Exile and Discovery". Variety. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ Jones, Marcus (2023-09-14). "Taika Waititi and Billy Luther Set Out to Make Indigenous Stories Feel Less 'Alien'". IndieWire. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Son captures complexity of father's work in documentary 'The Interaction Cowboy'". NPR Illinois. 2024-01-03. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "The 'Interaction Cowboy' Tim Koschmann shares his path to Ethnomethodology research at SIU School of Medicine". NPR Illinois. 2024-03-05. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ The Interaction Cowboy. Retrieved 2024-11-29 – via www.pbs.org.