Filmmaker
Borowski's films can currently be seen streaming on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. With a fusion of horror, true-crime, and drama, John Borowski has come to deliver chilling films with an impact so awesome that you soon learn nothing is more frightening than reality, as he has. Inspired by Hitchcock, Borowski not only lives up to the title auteur through his diligent vision, but also through deliberate execution as writer, producer, director, and editor. As a result, his films have been called holistic works of art, he has earned awards, and (markedly important to the filmmaker) he has gained a staunch following of true-crime devotees. Against all odds, its Borowskis passion that fuels and sustains his devotion to creating art through film.
Borowskis debut as filmmaker began with the release of H.H.
Holmes: Americas First Serial Killer (2004), documenting,
for the first time on film, the life and times of Americas torture
doctor who murdered countless victims in his labyrinthine castle
of horrors during the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair. Touted by Videoscope
Magazine as scary as hell.
Borowskis H.H. Holmes resulted in an unprecedented worldwide release for an indie
documentary film. Fall 2006 marked H.H. Holmes debut on broadcast
television (and Borowski as Television Broadcast Producer), when Court
TV Canada premiered the film as a 60-minute feature show. H.H. Holmes
is distributed on DVD to over a dozen countries and continues to sell worldwide.
Reviews and features of Borowskis work are covered in a variety of
media, including: Variety, LA Weekly, CBS News, Aint It Cool News,
Mancow Radio Show, Bizarre Magazine (UK), Chicago Sun-Times, Rue Morgue Magazine,
Crime Libraryamong others.
2004 kept Borowski busy with screenings and lectures, as well as picking up
awards for H.H. Holmes. At Chicagos Midwest Independent Film
Festival, Borowski earned the Best Director award, and at Screamfest LA, he
walked away with the award for Best Horror Documentary. By exclusive invitation,
he screened H.H. Holmes and lectured at the Chicago Historical Society,
Chicago International Documentary Film Festival, St. Xavier University, and
Indiana State University, as well as other Midwest libraries and colleges.
For the past 10 years, Borowski has also balanced the role of Entrepreneur,
having formed and independently run his company Waterfront Productions. Through
Waterfront, he produced and published a book (The
Strange Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes) and a multi-media CD-Rom, as companion
pieces to the H.H. Holmes DVD. Utilizing intuitive talents in the
areas of graphic arts and web design, Borowski creates a branding of his films
to complement and coincide with that of the merchandising.
In 2007, Facets Video Distributed Borowski's latest film, Albert
Fish, an 86-minute feature docudrama that recounts the true story
of elderly cannibal Albert Fish, who lured children to their deaths in Depression-era
New York City. Videoscope Magazine calls Albert Fish Riveting
and Unsettling.
Borowski studied filmmaking at Columbia College Chicago where he earned a
Bachelors degree. He has been tapped as Director of Photography and
Editor for several independent projects, as well as commissioned by UKs
Channel Four to serve as Associate Producer on a U.K. broadcast
program of H.H. Holmes. Borowski resides
in his hometown of Chicago where he is currently producing his next film, Carl Panzram.