Chase Thompson

John Zielinski is the "most blacklisted author in the history of Iowa," a tireless freelance investigative reporter with a passion for exposing the human traffickers, pedophiles, drug dealers and satanists who lurk among us. (Coincidentally, Zielinski and the filmmakers literally lurk among us: they've called Columbia home for many years.) Zielinski musters all his resources in this fight, producing videos, appearing on local access television and before city councils, and eagerly urging his message before any that will listen. To some this may seem easy to dismiss, but his story is deeper, more varied, and sensitively textured than it first appears. Directors Chase Thompson and Ryan Walker tell his story with an open mind and a nonjudgmental eye, helped by an eerie, low-fi aesthetic and an original score from local musician Mark Speckman. T/F welcomes the film and directors home from a recent, well-deserved appearance at the Slamdance festival in Park City, Utah; Zielinski is even further evidence of the thriving talent pool in our own backyard. Plays with Very Nice, Very Nice (dir. Arthur Lipsett, 1961, 7 min.), minute for minute one of the most influential films of all time, a groundbreaking montage that rocked both Stanley Kubrick and George Lucas.

Zielinski: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1766208/
Very Nice, Very Nice: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055594/… (altro)