The foundation grant that helped allow Steve James to produce “Hoop Dreams” 20 years ago is back on board with a sizeable grant to Kartemquin Films for completion of James’
Kartemquin Films will become the first documentary company to receive the Newberry Library’s 25-year-old Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award at a ceremony July 31.
“Kartemquin has
It goes without saying that Kartemquin docs always attract an enthusiastic audience, but it is a rarity when one of them sells out two weeks in advance of the screening
Usama Alshaibi, who made the acclaimed feature-length doc “Nice Bombs,” about his native Iraq, is the recipient of the first Kartemquin Films’ Diversity Fellowship.
Alshaibi, who was
KARTEMQUIN FILMS’ LONG RANGE PLANS under executive director Justine Nagan are taking shape with two new additions.
Martin Perdoux
Kartemquin Films has won its second prestigious Peabody Award for filmmaker Maria Finitzo’s timely documentary, “Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita.”
Finitizo will accept the award during
IFP’S 2009 PRODUCERS SERIES April 4-6 and April 18-29 at Columbia College focuses on documentaries. Toplining the series is a Kartemquin trio of creative director Gordon
Venerable Kartemquin Films, now helmed by recently-appointed executive director Justine Nagan, is embarking on a number of new initiatives to assure its viability and growth, even in these tough
Kartemquin Films has appointed current associate director Justine Nagan to succeed co-founder Gordon Quinn as executive director of the 42-year old producer of socially relevant films.
Quinn,
Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin’s founder and current president, will relinquish management responsibilities as part of a transition designed to ready the legendary documentary production house for future growth.
KARTEMQUIN FILMS, the granddaddy of social commentary docs (including “Hoop Dreams”) is the 2008 Hugo Awards honoree for Commitment to Excellence in TV Productions, and L.A.-based Smuggler
Kartemquin Films, the 41-year old social documentary collective, has reestablished a board of directors as it proceeds with a multi-year leadership succession.
Board chair is
KARTEMQUIN’S DOCUMENTARY-IN-PROGRESS about stem cell research was one of only two American docs out of 41 international films invited to pitch at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
A TRIBUTE TO KARTEMQUIN FILMS on its 40th anniversary, “Truth in Motion: A Retrospective of Kartemquin Films,” will be held Nov. 3 and Nov. 10-12 at the University of Chicago
A TRIBUTE TO KARTEMQUIN FILMS on its 40th anniversary, “Truth in Motion: A Retrospective of Kartemquin Films,” will be held Nov. 3 and Nov. 10-12 at the University of Chicago
Kartemquin Films is teaming with Tribune music critic Howard Reich to document the life of Reich’s mother, Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich.
Howard Reich approached Kartemquin a year
Media Burn Archive is hosting the Guerrilla Television: The Revolutions of Early Independent Video Symposium – featuring newly-digitized works from the movement and offering a rare opportunity to discuss them
The 29th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival will be held in person at the Gene Siskel Film Center November 3–16, 2023. Since 1994, the Black Harvest Film Festival has been Chicago’s annual
The 59th Chicago International Film Festival, presented by Cinema/Chicago, announced today the program and schedule for Industry Days, running October 12-15 in downtown Chicago. Now in its 9th year, the four-day conference is
With the passing of celebrated film critic and Black Harvest Film Festival co-founder and consultant Sergio Mims last fall, the Gene Siskel Film Center announced the establishment of the Sergio Mims
