Kartemquin's Jim Morrissette and Julie Englander met with 7th and 8th grade video students at the Eli Whitney/LVCDC Community School in Little Village on Thursday, where they screened clips from Now We Live on Clifton, The New Americans, and a few of Jim's PSAs, and talked about working as documentary filmmakers. The Little Village community and LVCDC had been the subjects of some Kartemquin filming in the winter, and this class was a great opportunity to demonstrate a little bit more of what Kartemquin does, as well as introduce ourselves to a new generation of video fans!

Kartemquin's Gordon Quinn and Justine Nagan participated Saturday in Northwestern University's first-annual social-issue media symposium. Gordon held a master class for 10 students on documentary filmmaking and Justine spoke on a panel about creating and distributing social-issue films with representatives from Participant Media and California Newsreel. The event was covered by the Northwestern press.

Kartemquin's At the Death House Door played to a sold-out crowd Saturday night at the Gene Siskel Film Center. A lively discussion followed the screening. If you missed the premiere, you can still get tickets for showings during the week.

At the Death House Door will have its Washington DC premiere this Wednesday night at 7pm. We hope you can join us. There will be a post-screening discussion with Rev. Carroll Pickett, filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert, and Diann Rust-Tierney, Exec. Dir. National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The panel will be moderated by Kojo Nnamdi, NPR host. The screening is presented by AFI SILVERDOCS and the Center for Social Media at American University.

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Maryland

Tickets available here.

Join us for a discussion on Capital Punishment featuring clips from Kartemquin's At the Death House Door tomorrow at noon in San Francisco. For more information, and to RSVP, click here.

Reel Chicago recently covered Kartemquin's recently initiated Executive Director search. Read the article. Read the job posting.

Get your tickets now for the Chicago premiere of Kartemquin's latest, At the Death House Door, at the Gene Siskel Film Center at 8pm. Filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert will be in attendance.

The premiere has started to generate press coverage.

Read some coverage of the recent Virginia Tech screening of Terra Incognita.

Kartemquin is excited to announce that At the Death House Door won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 2008 Atlanta Film Festival. Congratulations to the filmmakers!

Kartemquin's recent doc, At the Death House Door, was awarded the "Inspiration Award" at this year's Full Frame documentary festival in Durham, NC. Filmmakers Steve James, Peter Gilbert, Gordon Quinn and Aaron Wickenden attended the festival on behalf of the film.