Gene Koprowski is the President (PRODUCER) of Money Politcs Radio/GeoPolitcs Radio, a multimedia production company that produces documentary films for PBS/NETA (in the U.S,) and SBS/Special Broadcasting Service, in Australia and film festivals in Europe, as well as comedy podcasts for NPR/PRX and Pacifica Radio Network, and publishes movie music, manages and licenses works of emerging music artists, and is developing a new, LGBTQ-themed franchise nightclub in college towns called COME OUT. The company's KLAK Digital Radio, a streaming radio station, is a licensed affiliate of the Fox News Radio Network.
Our documentary films offer an homage to the history of cinema, aesthetically harkening back to classical Hollywood and its sophisticated story lines.
Gene has personally been nominated for and received many major media awards, including an Emmy Award Nomination (2008), three Telly Awards (2020, 2021, 2022), a Davey Award (2020), a Videographer/Viddy Award (2021), and two Hermes Creative Awards, including one for best director (2022), and an Associated Press editors investigative reporting award (1998).
He also earned the humanitarian media honor the Communitas Award (2022) for the film, The Cotton Club: The Musicians' Story.
PERSONAL LIFE
Gene was born in Chicago. His parents are from Poland. His mother is a lawyer and his father was a noted Polish editor-in-chief and journalist. Gene completed his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University, Evanston; and he later earned a master's degree at The University of Chicago. He also completed the New York Film Academy's Executive Program in Producing.and a law degree at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, magna cum laude.
Gene enjoys travel and his favorite foreign cities include London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Brussels and Amsterdam. His public service experience includes service as a U.S. Naval Officer, commissioned by the President of the U.S., Bill Clinton (2000). Gene attended Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Fla., the same school used for exterior shots in director Taylor Hackford's hit film (with Richard Gere, Deborah Winger, and Louis Gossett Jr.), An Officer and a Gentleman. Gene also completed Officer Leadership School as well as two semesters of U.S. Navy War College, in Providence, R.I., studying strategy, operations, and joint service command.
For the Navy, Gene set and executed media relations strategy for placements on CNN, and other national media, and social media strategy and implementation on weekends and summers for the Chief of Information (CHINFO) at the Pentagon and Supreme Allied Command/NATO. Gene was awarded National Defense Service Medal for service in the War on Terror as well as a Letter of Commendation from NATO. He also provided media training for flag officers. Presently, he is affiliated with a unit of the National Guard in Michigan as a PAO and military lawyer. He is a graduate of the Naval Justice School, Newport, RI, certification program as a military ethics counselor. He is also a chaplain with the USCG Auxiliary.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Gene is a member of the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE), and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). and is represented by Arnay Talent, Los Angeles, for new film producing projects.
THE BROKEN COMPASS PLAYERS
Our theater troupe, The Broken Compass Players, regularly performs at theaters in the Chicago area, including The Second City Comedy Theater, and for our podcasts for NPR/PRX and for Pacifica Radio Network; and our performers are members of SAG/AFTRA (Hollywood) and Actors Equity (London), including Molly Murphy and JC Cadena.
Executive Music Producer and Choreographer N. Bruening is a member of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), and earned a master's degree in music business from the Berklee School of Music, Boston, studied at Ole Miss, and graduated from the University of Memphis. with a BFA. Don't call him Eugene. That's his father's name.
Producer/Writer Gene Koprowski makes sophisticated documentary films with an aesthetic evocative of the motion pictures of the Golden Era of Hollywood. But with post-modern, visual storytelling techniques that foreground the characters. With closeups, and jump cuts, juxtaposing images of the past and our present memories, these important films create an exciting, dream-like sensation for audiences.
Featuring archival black and white imagery, and warm sepia tones of stars like Cab Calloway, Count Basie and Billie Holiday, and cooly voiced by National Public Radio's (NPR) Jazz Vocal of the Year Performer Dee Alexander, The Cotton Club: The Musicians' Story (2022) earned the Communitas Award for public service, airing during black history month on CBS46 ATLANTA as well as a Best Director Award from the Hermes Creative Awards.
Another recent documentary film On With the Show: Eighty Years of Bugs Bunny Cartoons and Classical Music debuted on WTVP/PBS in the fall of 2020, and earned a Telly Award for best archival research in 2021 as well as a Davey Award (2020) for best TV producing by a boutique production company. The film also earned its producers the Videographer Award/Viddy Award (2021) and the Marketing Communications Award Gold Medal/Marcom Award (2021) for best TV program.
Another recent film, The Frank Capra Story: A Wonderful Life, debuted on WTTW/PBS in the fall of 2018, and also earned a Telly Award (2020) for best archival research. This film was awarded the Back by Demand/Audience Award as the fans' favorite documentary film at the American Documentary Film Festival (spring 2019) in Palm Springs, California. The film made its silver screen debut there at the famed Camelot Theater.
Those award-winning documentaries also were streamed over PBS Passport and the PBS App.
The company's founding producers have also produced/written/and directed for the theater, and his most recent show was 2019's sold-out review at The Second City Comedy Theater, Make America Gag Again. Other plays he has written or produced have been shown at the Greenhouse Theater (formerly the Body Politic Theater) and the Acting Workshop in Chicago (2018, 2019). The company produced radio theater programs expanding on the Second City material for Pacifica Radio Network in the summer and fall of 2020, including Trump and Biden's Excellent Election Adventure, which was distributed to 200 Pacifica and National Public Radio (NPR) affiliates throughout the U.S. The producers are launching a new version of Make America Gag Again for distribution on PRX/NPR and Pacifica Radio Network.
MAJOR WORKS
Gene began his career as a producer-writer on PBS-TV nationally syndicated program, TechnoPolitics, working with famed Peabody Award-winning producers Neal B. Freeman and Andy Walworth. The program aired on more than 400 PBS affiliates and was based in Washington D.C. in the 1990s near DuPont Circle. Gene and Nancy have also lived/worked in New York City.
Other significant media works include:
Contributing Writer/Producer: Fox News Channel Interactive (2006-2014).
Columnist: United Press International (UPI) (2000-2006).
Feature Writer: Forbes Magazine + ASAP (1995-2000)
Evening Producer: CBS News Radio/WBBM-AM Chicago (1997-2000)
Columnist: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition (1995-2003).
Feature Writer: The Washington Post High Tech Horizons (1997-2003)
Columnist: Entrepreneur Magazine (1999-2001)
Associate Producer: The McLaughlin Group, a PBS/NBC production, Washington D.C., Line produced two, half-hour episodes of the nationally syndicated talk show recorded at NBC Studios (1989).
Field Producer: Dossier Justice (The Justice File), a reality TV special on Swiss Public Television/RTS-1, the French-language network owned by Radio Télévision Suisse. (1996).
Columnist/Chicago Bureau Chief: Asia Times Newspaper, Bangkok, (1995-1997)
Columnist/Capitol Hill Bureau Chief: Washington Technology Newspaper/Washington Post (1988-1990)
Front Page Feature Writer: Investor’s Business Daily (1994-1997)
Feature Writer: Wired Magazine/Wired.com/Hot Wired (1994-2000)
New York Bureau Reporter/Fairchild Publications, 1987-1988
Gene also executive produced a direct-to-DVD feature film, with a foreign director, the horror film genre spoof Headcrusher (1999) which was distributed by Amazon Prime. The completion of that feature film was covered by the Producers Guild of America's (PGA) prestigious journal, Above-the-Line.
ADVERTISING WORK
Like fellow filmmakers Ridley Scott and Guillermo del Toro, Gene also accepts commissions for advertising work. He has created cutting-edge, new media advertising and social media and radio commercials for Facebook, the Food and Drug Administration, Pfizer, and others has earned advertising laurels for the work from his peers in the industry, including the Healthcare Advertising Awards Gold Medal (2009) for his work for the FDA; the Healthcare Advertising Awards, Bronze Medal (2010) for the brand Shepherd Medical (CVS Stores); and the Service Industry Advertising Awards (2011) for his radio advertising spots for WTOP-AM, Washington D.C.
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