The 18th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival is ready to have another monumental year at the Gene Siskel Film Center on June 2-9, featuring a killer lineup with new films from some true underground legends.
First, Usama Alshaibi will screen his latest, most visually stunning and conceptually innovative feature Profane, about a spiritually confused Muslim sex worker trying to recapture her lost jinn — a demon of smokeless fire — on streets of the Windy City.
Then, documentary filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn return to their hard rockin’ roots with Heavy Metal Picnic, which relives one of the most notorious ’80s weekend parties in the history of Maryland and the world — the Full Moon Jamboree, which if you can remember it means you weren’t there. Plus, Hmp will be screened with Heyn and Krulik’s underground classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot.
Also in the documentary vein, are Marie Losier‘s...
First, Usama Alshaibi will screen his latest, most visually stunning and conceptually innovative feature Profane, about a spiritually confused Muslim sex worker trying to recapture her lost jinn — a demon of smokeless fire — on streets of the Windy City.
Then, documentary filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn return to their hard rockin’ roots with Heavy Metal Picnic, which relives one of the most notorious ’80s weekend parties in the history of Maryland and the world — the Full Moon Jamboree, which if you can remember it means you weren’t there. Plus, Hmp will be screened with Heyn and Krulik’s underground classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot.
Also in the documentary vein, are Marie Losier‘s...
- 5/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory has announced that Constantine Kitsopoulos will conduct the production of Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, which will be presented in repertory with Johathan larson's Rent in February, 2011.
Kitsopoulos has built an international reputation spanning opera, symphony and musical theatre. In his fourth season as music director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra, he also is the general director of Chatham Opera, which he founded in 2005. Among other commitments this season, he will guest conduct the Baltimore, Detroit and New Jersey symphonies as well as the Westchester Philharmonic. He also has conducted the Blossom Festival Orchestra. Kistopoulos has conducted operas in the U.S. and in China and also was the musical director and conductor of Baz Luhrmann's highly acclaimed Broadway production of La Bohème as well as the 2008 Tony-nominated musical, A Catered Affair.
His full biography may be found at http://kitsopoulos.com/home.html.
Victoria Bussert,...
Kitsopoulos has built an international reputation spanning opera, symphony and musical theatre. In his fourth season as music director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra, he also is the general director of Chatham Opera, which he founded in 2005. Among other commitments this season, he will guest conduct the Baltimore, Detroit and New Jersey symphonies as well as the Westchester Philharmonic. He also has conducted the Blossom Festival Orchestra. Kistopoulos has conducted operas in the U.S. and in China and also was the musical director and conductor of Baz Luhrmann's highly acclaimed Broadway production of La Bohème as well as the 2008 Tony-nominated musical, A Catered Affair.
His full biography may be found at http://kitsopoulos.com/home.html.
Victoria Bussert,...
- 11/4/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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