| Bougainville
Productions has been around since 1992 but, like the late
Stanley Kubrick, chooses to make only one masterpiece per decade.
Bougainville's initial documentary was the
Emmy-nominated "The Wrecking
of Old Comiskey Park", which has been shown on WTTW
(Channel 11 in Chicago) and throughout the Midwest numerous
times.
Director David Levenson is a filmmaker
and professional artist whose specialty is baseball art, particularly
the ballparks and players of the pre-Modern era. His work
has been featured in many Chicago galleries over the past
15 years. Dave has also painted backdrops for the Christmas
windows of high-end department stores.
Jim Hausfeld, the editor of "Wrigley Field: Beyond
the Ivy",
has been splicing film and video for over a quarter of a
century
on scores of projects including "The Wrecking of Old
Comiskey". Famous for his midnight-to 8AM sessions,
he prides himself on being able to outlast anyone in the
editing
room. Jim never met a dissolve he didn't like.
Bob Chicoine, a CPA by day, ballpark
beerman by night, wrote the "Old Comiskey" lyric
and guided the "Wrigley Field: Beyond the Ivy" narration.
Known in the Windy City as "the beervendor poet",
he was a member of the Chicago team to the 1998 national
Poetry Slam.
Bob considers himself the master of the 17-second conversation:
the length of time it takes to pour two beers and make
change.
Producer Jimmy Mack is Bougainville's
jack-of-all-trades, from sound recording to writing to putting
on 39 pounds to play a body double in a key scene. Jimmy graduated
from Lewis University with a degree in Communications, then
studied with Second City, after which he became a familiar
stand-up comic on Chicago stages, then founded a comedy duet
that toured the Midwest.
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