January 2006

On December 20th, the Library of Congress announced that Kartemquin Films’ 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams was chosen as a part of the 2005 annual selection of 25 films to be added to the National Film Registry. This year’s collection includes Miracle on 34th Street, 1906 San Francisco earthquake footage and The Sting. The registry was created in 1989 and contains 400 films, in addition to the latest selections.

Hoop Dreams Executive Producer Gordon Quinn remarked, “The National Film Registry selection of Hoop Dreams is a great honor for Kartemquin. The film remains a highlight of our 40 years of filmmaking, and we’re very proud that the film was nominated by the public, and chosen by the Library of Congress, to be preserved as a cultural marker of our times.”

The 25 films were culled from a group of over 1,000 titles submitted by viewers to the Library of Congress for final selection. With the National Film Preservation Act, the Librarian of Congress annually selects 25 motion pictures which are considered “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant and represent the diversity and depth of America’s film history.

The Film Registry honor follows on the heels of the Hoop Dreams Criterion Collection DVD release last year. For more infomation on the National Film Preservation Board, please visit their website.

Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes will enjoy its New York festival premiere at the New York Jewish Film Festival next week. There will be two screenings of the work on Wednesday January 11th: a matinee at 1:30pm and another showing in the evening at 9:15pm. Both will be at The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, 165 West 65 Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, plaza level.

Ticket Prices range from $5-$10. For more information please visit here.

For the 3rd consecutive year, Kartemquin films are screening at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana. The details:

Taylor Chain I (Quinn, Blumenthal; 1981)
Thursday, February 16, 2006, 11:00am
Single Screening Tickets $6

Shulie (Blumenthal; 1967)
Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 8:15pm
Single Screening Tickets $7

All screenings to be held a the historic Wilma Theater, 131 S. Higgins Ave. in downtown Missoula, MT.

For more information, please visit here.

In the Family recently received a grant from the Michael Reese Health Trust of Chicago. We are most grateful for their support. In other news, this February Joanna Rudnick and Gordon Quinn plan to present excerpts from the film in progress at “Joining Forces Against Hereditary Cancer,” the first annual conference on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, presented by FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered). This spring, we plan to launch an interactive website about the documentary.

Kartemquin Films remembers Linda Pedraza, a great supporter and fighter for women touched by hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. On January 6, Linda lost her courageous battle with the disease. We are grateful to carry Linda’s message through her and her family’s involvement in our documentary In the Family.

Stevie will begin its premiere theatrical run in Japan at the “Pole-Pole Higashinakano” Theater in Tokyo, on Saturday, February 18th, 2006. Director/Producer Steve James and Producer Adam Singer will have a Q&A session following the 10:45AM, 1:40PM, 4:35PM and the 7:30PM screenings on Feb. 18th. They will also be there to answer questions after the 10:45AM and 1:40pm showings on Feb. 19th. Additionally, Hoop Dreams will show all night at the same theatre on February 18th. Stevie will run at the Pole-Pole through Friday, March 17, 2006.

Daily Screening schedule:
10:45AM/ 1:40PM/ 4:35PM/ 7:30PM

Pole-Pole Higashinakano Theater
Nakako-ku, Higashinakano 4-4-1
The building name is Pole Pole Za building BF1
Tel:03-3371-0088
The train line is JR-Sobu line, JR-Higashinakano station.

Japanese websites:
moviola.jp/stevie
 mmjp.or.jp/pole2

Join us for a screening of Golub: Late Works are the Catastrophes with filmmaker Gordon Quinn, on January 31, 2006 in New York. The film begins at 8:00 p.m. followed by a discussion with Gordon. Tickets are $12 at the door.

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New York, NY 10003
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