Tom Kalin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tom Kalin
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Jan 2, 1962(1962-01-02)
Age	62
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Capricorn

Tom Kalin Biography

Tom Kalin is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on January 2, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Tom Kalin (born 1962) is a screenwriter filmmaker, screenwriter and director of experimental films at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.

In the 90s, Kalin began a project known as Third Known Nest where he created a 3-4 minute film each year that expressed the pain and loss that was caused by the AIDS epidemic. Through an interview at the La Guardia and Wagner Archives, Kalin describes his belief in the importance of filmmaking: “I think there’s something really valuable about making work and being honest about it in very ugly times. It’s easy to make work in the happy times of life, but what I think is beneficial to other people is to try to be honest about really painful, difficult times in your life, and I think of that as that. I think of me telling the truth about what happened in a kind of indirect way – they’re lyrical, short films; they don’t explain everything.”

Tom Kalin was born into a middle-class Irish-Catholic household in Chicago, Illinois. His family consisted of 11 siblings, with the youngest being 19 years older than Kalin. Kalin earned his BFA at painting degree from The University of Illinois in 1984 as well as an MFA of Photographic and Video from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1987.

Tom Kalin Net Worth

Tom Kalin is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tom Kalin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kalin’s final project included Savage Grace, Savage Grace is a story about that 1972 Barbara Daly Békeland murder and features Julianne Moore as Baekeland.

In the 1990s and 1980s, Tom Kalin worked with ACT UP and was one of the founders of the AIDS activist group called Gran Fury. Gran Fury developed public service announcements such like “Kissing Doesn’t Kill,” part of a program that included postcard mailings as well as city bus ads, the goal of which was to increase awareness of the shortcomings in the government’s response.

Swoon, Kalin’s feature film debut in 1992, was based on the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case. Unlike the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film about the case called Rope, Swoon sought to depict a stylized allegory relevant for an era filled with fear about the AIDS crisis and anger towards an unresponsive government. The reception to Swoon was mixed at locations such as at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, causing criticisms about the film’s presentation of homosexual deviance. The film’s purpose was not negative representation but was instead inspired by anger towards social causes for injustices such as the AIDS crisis, and the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick case that was used criminalize homosexuality. Kalin wanted to make a “radical, political movie, actually, in a genre form,” setting his story in a film noir background. The total cost of the film in 1992 was $250,000, shot in 16mm within 14 days.

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Tom Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tom Kalin celebrates birthday on January 2 of every year.