Filmmaker, Radio/Podcast Host, Speaker, Scholar, Educator, Writer, and More

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Tom Knoblauch is a cultural critic, internationally award-winning filmmaker, broadcaster, and voiceover artist. Together with Ben Matukewicz, he started Omaha-based Aksarben Creative in order to contribute to the Midwest's film culture. He currently hosts The Entertainment, produced by NPR affiliate KIOS and syndicated on PRX. An internationally award-winning filmmaker, Knoblauch’s latest release is Moving Parts, which was released in 2022.

Radio/Podcasts

The Entertainment (2024-present) is a series focusing on different cultural issues every week as they manifest through our screens. It is produced through NPR affiliate KIOS and syndicated on PRX.

Previous:

  • Riverside Chats (2019-2024)

  • Podcast Professors (2020)

  • The Medium Roast (2017-2020)

  • The Vegetable Lasagna Show (2014-2016)

  • Guilty Pleasures Radio (2012)

  • Tuesdays with Tom (2011)

 

Films

 

Writing

Awards

  • Moving Parts
    Best Actor, Kansas Arthouse Festival, 2023
    Best Comedy, Chicago Filmmaker Awards 2022
    Best Comedy, Milan Arthouse Film Awards, 2022
    Bronze Award, International Independent Film Awards, 2022
    Best Screenplay, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2022
    Best Screenplay Finalist, Madrid International Film Festival, 2022
    Best Screenplay Finalist, Sacramento World Film Festival, 2022

  • A True Crime (as-yet-unproduced)
    Finalist, Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards Season 7
    Finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition (2023)

  • Reddit Detective (as-yet-unproduced)
    Finalist, Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition, 2022
    Finalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, 2022
    Finalist, Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship Season 5
    Finalist, Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards Season 7
    Finalist, Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest, 2021

  • The Debut (short film)
    Director’s Choice Award, Lincoln Short Film Festival, 2019

  • Adoptation
    Best Feature Finalist, Grand Indiewise Convention, 2016

 

Speaking Events

  • The Heartbreak Kid - Film Streams Panel, 2024

  • Gunda - Millwork Commons Panel, 2023

  • Director’s Panel - Flatwater Film Festival, 2023-2024

  • An Evening with Mary Roach - Council Bluffs Public Library, 2023

  • An Evening with Chip Davis - Benson Theatre, 2022

  • Filmmaker’s Panel - Flatwater Film Festival, 2022

  • Master of Ceremonies - Prairie Lights Film Festival, 2018