September 2007

Tune in at 10am on Sunday, September 16th, to 91.5 fm in Chicagoland, to hear Kartemquin's Gordon Quinn interviewed on WBEZ's Hello Beautiful. Gordon will be talking about his experience working on the acclaimed Mike Shea documentary, And This is Free, with Howard Alk in the 1960's. Then, please join us at the Chicago History Museum for a screening of the film Sunday afternoon at 1:30. The screening is free with Museum admission.

Join Kartemquin's Gordon Quinn at the Chicago premiere of the new documentary, Waiting to Inhale, Thursday September 20th, sponsored by The Public Square, The Illinois Humanities Council and Columbia College. The film explores the evolution of the medical marijuana debate. A post screening discussion, moderated by Gordon, with the filmmaker and members of both the medical and law enforcement communities will follow. Click here for details.

Kartemquin's film Stevie was recently featured in a Media Rights' feature on filmmaker Jennifer Fox's filmmaking influences. Read the article.

Stumped Magazine recently interviewed Kartemquin's Steve James. Read the story.

Join Kartemquin Films, the American Medical Association, the DuSable Museum and the Illinois Humanities Council for an evening of exploration entitled, "What is Fair? Genetics and Public Policy." Director Maria Finitzo will join a panel of esteemed Bio-ethics and Policy professionals for a frank discussion featuring excerpts from Kartemquin's Terra Incognita.

Tuesday, September 25th

DuSable Museum of African American History

Illinois Black Legislators Auditorium

740 E. 56th Place, use 57th St. Entrance

5:00-6:00pm Exhibition viewing

6:00-8:00pm "What is Fair?" event

Kartemquin's latest documentary, Terra Incognita is a finalist in competition at DOCNZ, New Zealand's premiere documentary fest. Awards will be announced October 1st. Wish us luck!

Buy your tickets now for Terra Incognita's North American Festival premiere. Each screening followed by a Q & A session with Director Maria Finitzo. See Kartemquin's latest on the big screen:

Saturday, October 6 - 4:15pm - Landmark Century Cinema

Monday, October 15 - 4:30pm - AMC River East

Tuesday, October 16 - 7:15pm - AMC River East

Read more about the Chicago International Film Festival.

Catch Kartemquin's latest documentary, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, in New York this November. Buy your tickets for this one night only screening!

Saturday November 17th at 7pm

Two Boots Pioneer Theatre

East 3rd Street between Avenues A and B

(closer to A)

New York, New York * USA

(212) 591-0434

Kartemquin's award winning series on immigration, The New Americans, is currently featured on PBS.org. Take The New Americans Immigration Quiz now.

Kartemquin Producer and Director of Communications, Justine Nagan, spoke to a class of undergraduate arts students from a variety of regional liberal arts colleges yesterday about her career path and her experiences at Kartemquin Films. The class was a part of the Chicago Arts Program.

Join us next week at the University of Chicago for a screening of Barbara Kopple's Academy-Award winning film, American Dream (1990) as a part of a series at the Film Studies Center entitled "Human Rights at Home." Gordon Quinn, Peter Gilbert and Jerry Blumenthal helped shoot and record sound for various parts of the film and will be on hand to answer questions about the documentary following the screening.

Thursday, October 4th 7:00pm

Film Studies Center

5811 S Ellis Ave Cobb Hall 306

Free and open to the public

If you missed either of Kartemquin's presentations as a part of the IHC's year long genetics initiative, you can watch video of both Joanna's participation with In the Family (02/07) and Maria's with Terra Incognita (09/07) on www.illinoischannel.org

Join us for a free screening of Kartemquin's award-winning documentary, Stevie, on Thursday, November 1st as a part of the Human Rights Film Series at the University of Chicago. Filmmaker Steve James will be there in person for a Q & A after the screening.

Film Studies Center

5811 S Ellis Ave Cobb Hall 306

7:00 pm