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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). He has edited on other documentaries and narrative films.
Early Life
[edit]He was born in Kenosha, WI and grew up in Libertyville and Springfield, IL. He went to Springfield High School. 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]. He was a staff writer at the school newspaper the Daily Illini[3] and a contributing writer to the arts magazine Buzz Weekly[4].
Career
[edit]in 2006, he moved to New York City where he wrote articles and produced videos for Popular Science magazine[5]. He interned at Men’s Journal and worked as a fact checker and writer at New York Magazine[6].
He moved to Chicago where he started and ran a festival called Backyard Film and Music Festival[7]. Around 2010, he studied at Chicago Filmmakers under the Academy Award-winning documentary director Bill Siegel[8]. And he directed a short film about Deep Springs College in California called Wild Solitude.
He moved to California and worked on the editing of a documentary about US-China relations called All Eyes and Ears[9], directed by Vanessa Hope and produced by Ted Hope. It premiered at Tribeca in 2015[10], and that same year, he moved to Los Angeles.
Other documentaries he edited on include Bunker77[11], directed by Takuji Masuda, about surfing legend Bunker Spreckels; Hal, directed by Amy Scott, about film director Hal Ashby, which premiered at Sundance in 2018; and Rulon, directed by Adam Irving, about the Olympic gold medalist in heavy-weight wrestling Rulon Gardner for the Olympic Channel/NBC.
He edited on Common Ground, which came out in 2023, directed by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, a follow-up to their film Kiss the Ground about regenerative agriculture.[12] And he co-edited Thriller40, directed by Nelson George, a 2023 documentary about the recording of Michael Jackson's album Thriller.
In 2019, he edited a narrative film titled Faith, directed by Eli Daughdrill, which premiered at Indie Memphis Film Festival. And in 2022, he edited the narrative film Frybread Face and Me, a semi-autobiographical story by the director Billy Luther, about growing up Diné (Navajo) in San Diego, executive produced by Taika Waititi and featuring an all-Native American cast[13]. It premiered at SXSW in March 2023 and had its international premiere at TIFF 2023.[14]
Towards the end of 2023, he finished a documentary learning what his dad (a world-traveling academic) did for work, called The Interaction Cowboy[15]. It premiered at the Helsinki Education Film Festival in Finland and premiered in the US at the Springfield Art Association's Molly Schlich Film Series in Springfield, IL [16] and aired on PBS stations across the US during the summer of 2024[17].
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.
- ^ "Buzz Magazine: Sept. 22, 2005 by Buzz Magazine - Issuu". issuu.com. 2005-09-22. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ Popular Science (2007-03-20). Teen Builds Nuclear Reactor. Retrieved 2024-11-29 – via YouTube.
- ^ Koschmann, -Fred. "Subterranean Records". NYMag.com. 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.
- ^ Indiewire (2015-05-19). "Vanessa Hope's 'All Eyes and Ears' Examines U.S.-China Relations". IndieWire. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ Qin, Amy (2015-04-30). "Q. and A.: Vanessa Hope on Documenting U.S.-China Relations in 'All Eyes and Ears'". Sinosphere Blog. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ Rechtshaffen, Michael (2017-11-02). "Review: Documentary 'Bunker77' captures stranger-than-fiction life of bohemian surfer". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Kiss the Ground (film)", Wikipedia, 2024-11-08, 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.
- ^ "Day Sponsor, Dave Leonatti, notes the Schlich Film Series preview party Jan. 10, 7 p.m." NPR Illinois. 2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ The Interaction Cowboy. Retrieved 2024-11-29 – via www.pbs.org.