Josh Koury is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker who is also currently an Instructor at Pratt Institute. In 2002, he co-founded the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival and served as the fest's Programming Director until its end in 2006.
Learn more about this filmmaker at his official website.
Journey to Planet X (2012) (with Myles Kane)
We Are Wizards (2008)
Standing By Yourself (2002)
The 19th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival includes feature-length experiments by Robert Todd and Soda_Jerk, plus work by Reynold Reynolds, Bryan Boyce, Sabine Gruffat, Ben Rivers and more.
The 11th annual Nevada City Film Festival is screening documentaries by Josh Koury, Chris Metzler and others, plus tons of short films.
The 15th Chicago Underground Film Festival is screening Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up on Mu, plus films by Lisa Barcy, Usama Alshaibi, Josh Koury and more.
The last ever New York Underground Film Festival is screening films by James Fotopoulos, Jeff Krulik, Jim Finn, Martha Colburn, Josh Koury and more.
Filmmaker Josh Koury, who also co-founded and help run the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, has just launched a new website to promote his new films.
Though not entirely comprehensive, Phil Hall’s Encyclopedia of Underground Movies is still loaded with great information and is a fun read.
Out of the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival’s entire lineup, I heartily recommend Lisa Barcy’s The Guilt Trip, but they’re screening a lot great films.
Josh Koury’s documentary Standing By Yourself taught me a new verb: “tussin,” which is the act of swallowing a whole bottle of cough syrup to get high.