Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

The trailer for Kartemquin's new 2010 release Prisoner of Her Past will be made exclusively available this week to subscribers to the Kartemquin newsletter. If you'd like to be the among the first to see the trailer, please sign up here. All new sign-ups this week will be sent the newsletter containing a link to the video and a password to enter. There's also an exclusive interview with Steve James on his new film No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson and a review of new DVD Taylor Chain Parts I & II. Don't miss out!

Kartemquin Films will share a collection of activist documentaries, including Labor Stories, Taylor Chain I & II, Golub: Late Works are the Catastrophes, and new 2010 feature Prisoner of her Past, at the first ever Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland during April 23-25th 2010. Kartemquin's Jerry Blumenthal and Judy Hoffman will attend. Screening times are as follows:

Prisoner of Her Past (4/24, 12pm)

Taylor Chain I & II (4/24, 4:30pm)

Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes (4/24, 8:30pm)

Labor Stories (4/25, 4pm).

Get more information.

Kartemquin would like to acknowledge the passing of our longtime friend and valued sound mixer Ric Coken, who died on Dec 31 2009. Ric, a professor in Columbia College Chicago's Film and Video Department, worked with Kartemquin over a number of years, getting sound mizing credits on Hoop Dreams, Golub, The Last Pullman Car, and Taylor Chain.

Read an obituary of Ric Coken here.