{"id":4192,"date":"2014-04-22T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2022-03-24T10:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:34:46","slug":"jason-kohl-06-shows-his-award-winning-film-the-slaughter-at-kalamazoo-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/jason-kohl-06-shows-his-award-winning-film-the-slaughter-at-kalamazoo-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Kohl \u201906 Shows His Award-Winning  Film \u201cThe Slaughter\u201d at Kalamazoo College"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4193\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4193 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/06.jpg\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College alumnus Jason Kohl\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/06.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/06-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Kohl &#8217;06<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jason Kohl \u201906<\/strong> shows his award-winning film \u201cThe Slaughter\u201d at Kalamazoo College, Tuesday, April 22 at 7:00 p.m. in Light Fine Arts Recital Hall. Sponsored by Kalamazoo College Media Studies, the film is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan-born Jason B. Kohl is an Austrian\/American Filmmaker. He got his B.A. in creative writing from Kalamazoo College in 2006 before moving to Berlin, Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship. In 2012 he got his MFA in directing from UCLA Film School in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>His UCLA MFA Thesis Film \u201cThe Slaughter\u201d premiered at the 2013 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas and was a finalist for the Student Academy Awards. It continues to play festivals like BFI London, Locarno, and Ann Arbor. Filmmaker Magazine called it \u201ca masterfully directed story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The short film stars \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d actor Michael Shamus Wiles, and is about a pig farmer who tests his unemployed son\u2019s determination to join the family business.<\/p>\n<p>Jason\u2019s been a finalist or semifinalist for several prestigious labs including the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Torino Film Festival\u2019s Adaptlab, and the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s an alumnus of the Locarno Filmmaker Academy and a curator for Short of the Week, the premiere online destination for short films.<\/p>\n<p>From 2012-2013 he returned to Berlin to complete postgraduate directing studies at the German Film and Television Academy as a DAAD Artist Study Scholar. He remains based in Berlin, where he is developing various feature projects.<\/p>\n<p>Jason does for hire directing work with his partner Nora Mandray. As Mako Film, their clients include MSNBC, Etsy and Vocativ.<\/p>\n<p>His first nonfiction book, a practical guide to film school, will be published by the Focal Press in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Jason and see clips from his work here: <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbkohl.com\">http:\/\/jasonbkohl.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kohl \u201906 shows his award-winning film \u201cThe Slaughter\u201d at Kalamazoo College, Tuesday, April 22 at 7:00 p.m. in Light Fine Arts Recital Hall. Sponsored by Kalamazoo College Media Studies, the film is free and open to the public. Michigan-born Jason B. Kohl is an Austrian\/American Filmmaker. He got his B.A. in creative writing from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":4193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[31,30,133],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-alumni","tag-awards","tag-filmsmovies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Jason Kohl \u201906 Shows His Award-Winning Film \u201cThe Slaughter\u201d at Kalamazoo College - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jason Kohl \u201906 shows his award-winning film \u201cThe Slaughter\u201d at Kalamazoo College, Tuesday, April 22 at 7:00 p.m. in Light Fine Arts Recital Hall.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/jason-kohl-06-shows-his-award-winning-film-the-slaughter-at-kalamazoo-college\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jason Kohl \u201906 Shows His Award-Winning Film \u201cThe Slaughter\u201d at Kalamazoo College - 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Sponsored by Kalamazoo College Media Studies, the film is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan-born Jason B. Kohl is an Austrian\/American Filmmaker. He got his B.A. in creative writing from Kalamazoo College in 2006 before moving to Berlin, Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship. In 2012 he got his MFA in directing from UCLA Film School in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>His UCLA MFA Thesis Film \u201cThe Slaughter\u201d premiered at the 2013 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas and was a finalist for the Student Academy Awards. It continues to play festivals like BFI London, Locarno, and Ann Arbor. Filmmaker Magazine called it \u201ca masterfully directed story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The short film stars \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d actor Michael Shamus Wiles, and is about a pig farmer who tests his unemployed son\u2019s determination to join the family business.<\/p>\n<p>Jason\u2019s been a finalist or semifinalist for several prestigious labs including the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Torino Film Festival\u2019s Adaptlab, and the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s an alumnus of the Locarno Filmmaker Academy and a curator for Short of the Week, the premiere online destination for short films.<\/p>\n<p>From 2012-2013 he returned to Berlin to complete postgraduate directing studies at the German Film and Television Academy as a DAAD Artist Study Scholar. He remains based in Berlin, where he is developing various feature projects.<\/p>\n<p>Jason does for hire directing work with his partner Nora Mandray. As Mako Film, their clients include MSNBC, Etsy and Vocativ.<\/p>\n<p>His first nonfiction book, a practical guide to film school, will be published by the Focal Press in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Jason and see clips from his work here: <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbkohl.com\">http:\/\/jasonbkohl.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9867,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/9867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}