At the Death House Door

Kartemquin’s Steve James is at BritDoc this week with At the Death House Door and Paradise Regained a 3 minute short Steve did for Cinelan. At the Death House Door is being presented at BritDoc by SXSW as the “Best of Fest.”

Members of the Chicago Tribune’s Subscriber Advantage program will have another chance to view Kartemquin’s recent award-winning doc, At the Death House Door on Saturday morning at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. A panel discussion with the filmmakers and Steve Mills, from the Tribune, will follow the screening.

Kartemquin’s recent doc At the Death House Door is screening on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, tomorrow evening, June 19 at 6pm before a House Judiciary Subcommittee. Director/Producer Steve James will will be there to answer questions.

Kartemquin’s At the Death House Door will be re-broadcast five times this month on the Independent Film Channel. Tune in to IFC (all CST, check local listings for details): Monday, June 16th at 8pm and midnight Tuesday, June 17th at 8:10am Wednesday, June 18th at 7am and 12:15pm

Kartemquin’s Peter Gilbert will be participating on a panel entitled, “Rights, Camera, Action” with an impressive array of other media makers at this year’s national ACLU conference. Reverend Pickett will also attend the conference and participate in a discussion and screening of Kartemquin’s recent doc, At the Death House Door. Get the schedule

Kartemquin’s In the Family is featured in an article in today’s Wilmette Life. Additionally, At the Death House Door was recently highlighted in the International Documentary Association newslestter. Check it out. In the blogosphere, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita was recommended to faith-minded filmgoers on the Explore the Sprit blog.

New York Magazine ranked Kartemquin’s At the Death House Door high on its early June Approval Matrix. Check it out!

Many thanks to the Center on Wrongful Convictions at NWU, the ACLU, the ACLU of Illinois, the Public Square, The Chicago Tribune Foundation and especially to the hundreds of people who came out last night to watch the film. It was a powerful night of documentary and discussion.

If you missed it, you can tune in and watch its broadcast tonight on IFC, or catch it on Comcast OnDemand.

Reverend Pickett, the subject of Kartemquin’s recent doc At the Death House Door, will be interviewed by two different Chicago radio stations tomorrow in anticipation of tomorrow night’s screening. Please tune in to WLS AM 890 at 10am and then to the John Williams show on WGN AM 720 at 2pm.

Read this review of Kartemquin’s latest, At the Death House Door in today’s New York Times. If you haven’t had a chance to see the film yet in Chicago, a reminder to RSVP now for the free screening on Wednesday evening. The filmmakers and Reverend Pickett will be in attendance. Email events@prairie.org to reserve your seat.

Additionally, read a local Pioneer article on the film, as well as recent coverage by the Associated Press and Entertainment Weekly.

Join us for the kickoff of Rooftop Films 2008 summer season with a screening of Kartemquin’s award-winning doc, At the Death House Door, Saturday May 31st, on the lawn in Fort Greene Park (Brooklyn). Get more information.

Reverend Pickett, the subject of Kartemquin’s recent doc, At the Death House Door, will be interviewed today on NPR’s “Fresh Air.” Get the details

Additionally, you can watch an interview with the filmmakers by Chicago Tribune reporter Rob Elder, or tune in to KXLU online tomorrow night at 7pm for another interview with Steve James and Peter Gilbert. Or listen to a radio interview with Steve James on the Kojo Nnamdi Show.

A reminder about all of the fantastic and free upcoming Kartemquin screenings. Come support your local documentarians.

Come to the Chicago premiere of Kartemquin's In the Family directed by Joanna Rudnick. Joanna will be present at both screenings, and following the film stay for a panel discussion with the filmmaker and leaders in the field.

• Monday, May 19; 7 pm
• Thorne Auditorium, Arthur Rubloff Building at Northwestern University
• 375 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL

• Wednesday, May 21; 7 pm
• Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute at Northwestern University
• 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL

Both screenings are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.

Then, Kartemquin Films, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Illinois, the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, and The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council present…

At the Death House Door Screening and Discussion Wednesday, May 28

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM (doors open at 6:30)

Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law 375 East Chicago Avenue

This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required. Email events@prairie.org or call 312-422-5580.

After the screening, there will be a discussion featuring Pickett, Chicago Tribune reporter Steve Mills, filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert, Ed Yohnka of the ACLU of Illinois, and Rob Warden, Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law.

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.

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.

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.

There's a flurry of press activity this morning in anticipation of the At the Death House Door Chicago premiere tomorrow. Read reviews in the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun Times. Listen to an interview with the filmmakers on WBEZ's Eight Forty-Eight, and read coverage in the Chicago Reader and on Gaper's Block.

Get your tickets now while they're still available for the Chicago premiere of At the Death House Door this Saturday! The film opens downtown at 8pm at the Siskel Film Center. If you can't make it for the premiere, the award-winning doc will continue to play the Siskel the remainder of the week.

The film has been generating significant press lately, including this piece on the Huffington Post.

If you can’t make the Chicago premiere of At the Death House Door during its run at the Siskel, you have another chance!

Kartemquin Films, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Illinois, the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, and The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council present…

Civic Cinema

At the Death House Door Screening and Discussion Wednesday, May 28

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM (doors open at 6:30)

Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law

375 East Chicago Avenue

This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required. Email events@prairie.org or call 312-422-5580.

After the screening, there will be a discussion featuring Pickett, Chicago Tribune reporter Steve Mills, filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert, Ed Yohnka of the ACLU of Illinois, and Rob Warden, Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. At the Death House Door tells the story of Rev. Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous “Walls” prison unit in Huntsville, Texas and presided over 95 executions, including the world‚s first lethal injection. The film particularly focuses on how Pickett was affected by Carlos De Luna, one of the inmates he counseled and who is now widely-regarded as wrongfully convicted˜based on evidence uncovered by Chicago Tribune reporters Steve Mills and Maurice Possley. It is a film about of the failures of the criminal justice system; about one man‚s spiritual and moral journey; and how this very final act of punishment does not bring closure.

Additionally, The Documentary Channel Blog recently covered the film. Read the post.

Get your tickets now for the Baltimore premiere of At the Death House Door at the Maryland Film Festival, May 2nd. The film will screen again at the festival on May 4th.

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.

Come to the New England premiere of At the Death House Door at the Independent Film Festival in Boston today and tomorrow. Get tickets.

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 is excited to announce that fresh from the festival circuit, At the Death House Door will premiere in downtown Chicago with a week-long run at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Join filmmakers Steve James, Peter Gilbert and Gordon Quinn for the Chicago premiere and discussion following, at 8:00pm May 10th.

Stay tuned for news of future Chicago screenings around the city.

Kartemquin's Peter Gilbert will be at the Sarasota Film Festival this weekend for screenings of At the Death House Door. The documentary is screening this afternoon as well as on Sunday evening at 5:15pm.

Kartemquin's At the Death House Door will screen on Friday, April 18th as a part of the Minneapolis / St. Paul International Film Festival. Get tickets now.

Kartemquin's Steve James and Peter Gilbert are being honored this evening at the 2008 IMAGE film awards gala in Atlanta for their recent work on At the Death House Door, in addition to their past film works. Congratulations to the duo!

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.

There's a flurry of Kartemquin activity at this year's Full Frame Film Festival in North Carolina starting tomorrow morning! Kartemquin's award-winning 2004 series The New Americans is screening in segments beginning tomorrow morning at 10:45. Then, fresh from SXSW and the Dallas Film Fest, At the Death House Door is screening at 7:15pm Friday night. Lastly, Erik Weihenmayer, one of the subject's of Kartemquin's Vietnam Long Time Coming, is the focus of Blindsight, a film about a group of Blind Tibetans scaling Mt. Everest.

Kartemquin's Gordon Quinn, Steve James, Peter Gilbert and Aaron Wickenden are attending the festival to represent the films.

Kartemquin's recent festival hit, At the Death House Door, will have its Chicago premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Saturday night May 10th. Filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert will be in attendance.