News & Current
- Kusiak music has begun composing pieces for the permanent exhibition at the first ever National Museum of American Jewish History, to open in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the Fall of 2010.
- John has been profiled in Electronic Musician's Composer Spotlight series. Check it out here!
- Tabloid, a work in progress from Errol Morris is being scored at Kusiak music. The film follows a 1970's story involving the abduction of a mormon missionary in the United Kindom by his ex-girlfriend, a former southern beauty queen.
- Honoring the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, director Eric Stange and Spy Pond Production's "The Wall - A World Divided" will air on PBS on June 28th. The film explores personal and political histories of the Berlin Wall and includes interviews with world leaders, diplomats and individual citizens.
- Five 90-minute films for the "We Shall Remain" series aired on PBS's American Experience in April and May of 2009. The films were the top non-fiction television downloads on iTunes during the months after they aired. Wounded Knee (episode #5) was screened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
- Laura Longworth's film "Luckey" was featured at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival!
- "Have You Seen Andy" winner of the Emmy for Investigative Journalism!
- "Secrecy" winner of Special Jury Award at Sundance 2008 and Best Documentary at the Newport International Film Festival 2008. (See Below)
- "The Singing Revolution", having broken all previous box office records in Estonia, and screened in LA and NYC to rave review, has since appeared in festivals in Canada, France, South Africa, Berlin, Poland, Norway and New Jersey.
Projects currently in production or recently completed include:
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- "The Wall - A World Divided"
- 2010
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honoring the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this film explores the history of the
Berlin Wall by telling the stories of ordinary people whose lives were caught up in these turbulent times
and explores the end of the Cold War from the inside perspective of world leaders and diplomats.
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- We Shall Remain
- 2007-2009
- a five part television series for American Experience documenting the history of Native Americans from their point of view. The first episode, "After the Mayflower," airs April 13, 2009.
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- "Yellowstone - Our Restless Earth"
- 2009
- a film for the National Park Service shown at the Yellowstone National Park Visitor's Center.
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- Illinois Holocaust Museum Karkomi Permanent Exhibition
- 2009
- opening and closing short films from an 11-part sequence that tells the story of the Holocaust and presents personal stories of Chicago-area survivors.
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- "The Polio Crusade"
- 2009
- a documentary on the March of Dimes' crusade to eradicate Polio, produced by Sarah Colt and based in part on David Oshinsky's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Polio: An American Story. First broadcast on February 2, 2009.
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- ""Scarred Justice - The Orangeburg Massacre - 1968"
- 2009
- a documentary on the Orangeburg, South Carolina shootings that occurred on February 8, 1968.
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- National spots
- for Nationside, Silk Soy Milk, Quaker Oats and Earthlink
Performances
