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George Bogdanich

Writer, publicist and documentary filmmaker

George Bogdanich is a writer, publicist and documentary filmmaker currently based in Chicago. He is co-producer and director of the three-part documentary “Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War” which was released in 2002. He has also worked as a political consultant for several members of congress. George has written articles, mostly about foreign affairs, for the Chicago Tribune, the Nation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Defense and Foreign Affairs: Strategic Policy. He is currently co-authoring a book for a former member of congress and finishing up a behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of a feature film.

George was born in Chicago and attended the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a BA degree in Comparative Literature. In recent years, George has been a publicist for a consortium of attorneys who represent Hungarian holocaust survivors in their class action lawsuits against the Hungarian national bank and national railroads.

George worked as a press secretary for Senator Richard Durbin when he first ran for US Congress in 1982 and was press secretary for Illinois in the 1988 Presidential campaign of Gary Hart. George also worked for the late US Rep George Sangmeister.

He is the father of four children.

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