Alex Kazhinsky of Lincolnwood is this year's Grand Prize winner in the annual Outguess Ebert contest — and tells me, "It's a big thrill to win your contest after playing it for so many years!"
Kazhinsky had a perfect score across all the categories. "For many years," he says, "I have worked as an actor in Chicago's entertainment industry. I've had speaking roles in independent films, web series, and commercials. Some of my most notable roles are the following:
• A corrupt Chicago Alderman named Cunningham in the web series "DaWiseguys."
•Uncle Steve in the short film "When I Was An Elephant," which won the award for Best Branded Film at the 2011 Chicago International Film Festival.
• Russian crime boss in the short film "The Moment."
"Because I'm an actor," he says, "the only thing I'll say about my age is that I'm in my 30s."
He's been playing the contest since the 1992 Oscars,...
Kazhinsky had a perfect score across all the categories. "For many years," he says, "I have worked as an actor in Chicago's entertainment industry. I've had speaking roles in independent films, web series, and commercials. Some of my most notable roles are the following:
• A corrupt Chicago Alderman named Cunningham in the web series "DaWiseguys."
•Uncle Steve in the short film "When I Was An Elephant," which won the award for Best Branded Film at the 2011 Chicago International Film Festival.
• Russian crime boss in the short film "The Moment."
"Because I'm an actor," he says, "the only thing I'll say about my age is that I'm in my 30s."
He's been playing the contest since the 1992 Oscars,...
- 8/30/2013
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Chicago – Last year, a documentary premiered here at the Gene Siskel Film Center, provocatively entitled “Man and His Erections.” The writer/director of the film is Rujanee Mahakanjana, an artist and designer who has been exploring filmmaking in the last five years. Her latest feature, premiering this week, is “Parallel Universe.”
Mahakanjana was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and has been in the U.S. since her teenage years. Her background in architecture and interior design led to the formation of her “Rujanee in Space” studio. Her Masters degree studies led her to filmmaking, a short experimental piece called “Random Seating.” The expansion of this journey led to her documentary Man and His Erections, a treatise on monumental building design, that featured a sharp and comedic fictional narrative about an adult film star who has lost his organic structure.
Both Sides Now: Ed Meanan as Mit and Tim in ‘Parallel Universe...
Mahakanjana was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and has been in the U.S. since her teenage years. Her background in architecture and interior design led to the formation of her “Rujanee in Space” studio. Her Masters degree studies led her to filmmaking, a short experimental piece called “Random Seating.” The expansion of this journey led to her documentary Man and His Erections, a treatise on monumental building design, that featured a sharp and comedic fictional narrative about an adult film star who has lost his organic structure.
Both Sides Now: Ed Meanan as Mit and Tim in ‘Parallel Universe...
- 12/13/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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