Fred Koschmann - Crew

Fred Koschmann grew up in Illinois. Shortly after graduating from the University of Illinois in Champaign, he moved to New York City where he worked for magazines, including New York Magazine and Popular Science as a video producer for PopSci. He moved to Chicago, studied documentary under Academy Award-nominated director Bill Siegel (The Trials of Muhammad Ali), and completed work on a short film titled Wild Solitude about the remote Deep Springs college in Eastern California. He also started and ran an indie film festival called Backyard Film & Music Fest from 2008-11.