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Copy shortlink: Al Milgrom was the kind of guy who always seemed young, even when he wasn t. At age 96, he came out as the oldest emerging documentary filmmaker with the premiere of Singin in the Grain, his portrait of a multigenerational Minnesota polka band. But he s better known for fostering the Twin Cities film scene. Milgrom founded what is now the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, taught cinema at the University of Minnesota and launched the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Along the way, he built an audience for foreign and indie films while bringing such famed directors as Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard and Milos Forman to town. ....