Justine is Kartemquin Films’ Associate Director, as well as a Producer on staff. With Kartemquin, she is currently directing Typeface, a documentary short on American typography and graphic design as well as co-producing An All American City, a film on religious pluralism in America. She recently acted as the Associate Producer on Kartemquin’s stem-cell documentary Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, which was broadcast nationally on PBS’ Independent Lens in early 2008. Prior to these projects, she worked with independent filmmakers Judith Helfand (on Heatwave) and Rachel Lyon (on Race to Execution), while helping Kartemquin to develop the series The Learning Chronicles and earning her Master’s Degree in the Humanities with an emphasis on Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago in 2004. Other recent Chicago experience includes teaching at the Hyde Park Art Center, as well as working as a Theatre Manager at the Cadillac Palace and Thorne Auditorium for the Chicago International Film Festival and as a summer Fellow for The HistoryMakers, an African-American video oral-history archive.
Before moving to Chicago, she produced promotional spots for Public Television, directed the post-production department for a small media firm and worked for various other companies ranging from M&C Saatchi in Sydney, Australia to Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? on National Public Radio. Justine received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2000 in Film and Journalism. She is an active volunteer in the community for such organizations as The Glass Slipper Project, the Hyde Park Art Center and WTTW. She is the staff representative on Kartemquin’s Board of Directors, served as an elected member of the Badger Herald Newspaper’s Board in 1999-2000 and has acted on several other civic and community committees.
The deadline for Summer internships at Kartemquin has passed. Applications are currently being accepted for the Fall.