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About keripickett

Keri Pickett, Producer, Director and cinematographer of The Fabulous Ice Age, A Documentary Film on the formation of the Great American touring ice shows to today. Keri is also an award winning photographer and author of Love in the 90s, BB & Jo: The Story of a Lifelong Love, A Granddaughter’s Portrait (Warner Books, 1995) had a first printing of 150,000 copies. Faeries (Aperture Books, 2000) won the Lambda Literary Award for best art book of 2000 and Saving Body & Soul, The Mission of Mary Jo Copeland (Random House, 2004) Photographs by Keri Pickett. Essays & Interviews by Margaret Nelson helped raise money for the homeless shelter it features. The Fabulous Ice Age is her first film.

Holiday On Ice turns 70 years old!

Tom’s show helped Scott Hamilton to form the idea for STARS ON ICE and pretty soon the whole skating world has six degrees of separation between it’s players. Amazing. Continue reading

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Richard Dwyer

This is the kind of letter that serves as a reminder of why I have worked so hard for so long. An icon in the industry, Richard Dwyer is not only talented and still enjoying an active career, but he … Continue reading

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Audience Reviews

“…as a young figure-skater in ohio in the late 60s, whose skating club included the gifted clown, scotty hamilton, & whose ice show star one year was peggy fleming, this film not only stirred me with fond remembrances, but steeped me a beautiful rendering of the history i knew nothing about…” Margie Weaver to Keri Pickett Continue reading

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Audience response is great!

Tomorrow night is my film’s BEST OF FEST screening at 7 PM and I sure hope a bunch of people come down to support my Minnesota-Made film! Continue reading

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MSPIFF ‘Best of Fest’ 2013 line up!

The St. Paul Pioneer Press article is wonderful – well – with one exception – Chris Hewitt calls Roy Blakey – RAY! Well, my Uncle Roy is a Ray – a ray of light as in a star… Continue reading

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MSPIFF Best of Fest

The Fabulous Ice Age is going to be chosen along with other films for the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival’s BEST OF FEST! Continue reading

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Firsts

My first book, ‘Love in the 90s’, is about Roy Blakeys’ parents lifelong love story and now my first film, ‘The Fabulous Ice Age’ features Roy! Continue reading

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Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival fun.

The location of the #MSPIFF is so beautiful! Yesterday the trees all had this amazing snow stuck to one side like an outfit and the Mississippi was flowing… a beautiful spring day in Minneapolis! Continue reading

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Audience response is great!

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