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Kartemquin is delighted to have received funding for two in-progress films - A Good Man and The Interrupters - in the most recent round of funding from ITVS (The Independent Television Service). Read about the funding on the ITVS website. Kartemquin would like to congratulate all our partners on these two projects, which will both be completed in 2011.

John Kasaona, the subject of Kartemquin's Milking the Rhino, was one of the speakers at the prestigious TED 2010 conference this past February. You can now watch video of his talk about community-based conservation online.

Milking the Rhino is available on DVD and from iTunes. A recent review of the film by The Film Stage describes the film as "A must-see for any nature enthusiast, or anyone with a civic conscience."

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City screens tomorrow at the National Mall in its Washington, D.C. premiere. The documentary was produced by Archimedia Workshop in consultation with Kartemquin Films, whose artistic director Gordon Quinn and development director Elizabeth Neufeld will attend the screening, which begins at 8:30pm on the National Mall at 4th street.

The extraordinary event will also feature special appearances by Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, and Jim Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The film's director Judith McBrien and narrator Joan Allen will also be present.

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Short films have always been an integral part of Kartemquin's history, from Parents to Chicago Crossings. To explore the feasibility of creating a new shorts initiative to complement our regular long-form works, we recently filmed the 9 minute Sacred Transformations, directed by Justine Nagan and edited by Leslie Simmer. The film - shot in a single night inside on the South Side of Chicago - follows Eric Dean Spruth as he helps people to transform tattoos that no longer represent who they are into new works of art.

We are delighted to announce that Sacred Transformations has already been accepted into the "Fear No Film" program at the 2010 Utah Arts Festival. We will be announcing more ways to see the film soon. Stay tuned!

For more information on Eric Dean and the organization Sacred Transformations, click here.