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Szmolinksy

Directed by: Julius Onah
duration: 5 minutes

Just outside of Berlin, Karl Szmolinsky is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" to Pyong Yang. What happens next is beyond his wildest imagination.

contact: Julius Onah
address: USA
email: julius@juliusonah.com
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Warstory

After discovering the story online, two friends of mine and I teamed up and got a deal from a local camera house in Berlin, rented a car and drove over to Eberswalde. It was a morning with torrential rainstorms and the radio advised to stay off the roads. We got there and the rain died down for a brief window of time, we shot as much as we could and as fast as we could. We got back to Berlin, returned the car, and on the walk home a huge thunderstorm came down and we ran back to the apartment, drenched.

Bio - Julius Onah

Julius Onah is an award winning filmmaker who has worked for filmmakers Marc Levin and Spike Lee. A recent graduate of Wesleyan University's theater program, as a student he conducted research that brought acclaimed playwright Robert Alexander's hip-hop play A Preface to the Alien Garden to Wesleyan and served as an assistant director and lead actor under his direction. His student films have screened at numerous festivals around the world. Since graduating Wesleyan he has been a member of NBC's Page Program, has served as assistant editor on the documentary feature Lockdown, USA (Official Selection 2006 Tribeca Film Festival), and as writer, director, editor, producer, and actor on his short film She Waits In The Restless Horizon. (2005 Color of Filmmaking Award) He has also served as a producer for MTV News (Back in Blue: The 'Superman Returns' Movie Special, My Block: Puerto Rico) and writer, producer, and editor of web-based sketch comedy series Tinku's World. Born in Nigeria and raised in The Philippines, Nigeria, Togo, England, and Virginia, Julius lives in New York City and is currently pursuing his M.F.A. at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program where he has been selected as a Dean's Fellow. The prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has also selected him as a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar.