1. Jack Stevenson was born on 14 September 1955 and is an author and film showman, who lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.
13 Facts About Jack Stevenson
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Since 2009, Jack Stevenson operates Husets Biograf, a cinema in Copenhagen.
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Jack Stevenson's earliest published writing was in his magazine The Living Color, published in Los Angeles in 1982.
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Jack Stevenson has had dozens of stories published in a wide variety of places such as "Dusan Makavejev" in the magazine Chemical Imbalance and "Underground USA The Pike St Cinema" in the magazine Divinity.
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Jack Stevenson has been a regular contributor to the Bright Lights Film Journal with long form essays including George Kuchar: A First-Person Life and Robert Cowan : Unsung Superstar of the Underground.
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In Boston in 1986 Jack Stevenson began showing films at the bar Chet's Last Call, which was up a flight of stairs and across the street from the Boston Garden.
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Jack Stevenson brought Roy Frumkes to Chet's for a screening of Street Trash, Document of the Dead, and footage from The Last House on the Left.
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In 1989 Jack Stevenson did something that had never been done before.
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Jack Stevenson threw 16mm films in a rucksack and flew to Europe; traveling from country to country arranging screenings.
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Where Jack Stevenson differed from the Forty Thieves, who were producers exploiting their own product, or even road showing underground filmmakers, was by taking quality short films from a wide range of sources on the road.
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Jack Stevenson showed Viva Las Vegas and Hell's Angels on Wheels.
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Jack Stevenson taught at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark from 1995 to 1998.
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Jack Stevenson has been featured several times at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.