Vincent documentary to be shown in Lake County

Vincent: A Life In Color

February 25, 2009 – The 95-minute documentary on Marina City resident Vincent Falk is coming to a theater a little closer to home. Vincent: A Life In Color, which premiered last November at a film festival in North Carolina, will be screened March 7 and 8 at the 2009 Lake County Film Festival in Grayslake, Illinois.

“I am thrilled to be screening at the Lake County Film Festival,” says the film’s director/producer, Jennifer Burns, in a press release. “After spending the past few years working on this project, we are quite anxious to share Vincent’s story with some of his local fans.”

Burns (left) says she and Falk will attend the midwest premiere in Grayslake, which is about 48 miles north of downtown Chicago.

The 59-year-old computer programmer for Cook County is better known throughout downtown Chicago as the man who dresses in brightly colored suits and dances on bridges for the amusement of tourists. The film follows Falk through a tour boat season on the Chicago River.

Falk has been the subject of newspaper articles by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, and an NBC5 television news story. Born with glaucoma and blind in one eye, Falk was abandoned at an orphanage as a child. Eight years later, he was adopted and raised by Clarence and Mary Falk of Chicago.

“Whatever you think of this guy,” says Burns, “he has figured out what makes him happy, and he just does it. The rest of us should be so lucky.”

Vincent P. Falk