Terra Incognita

Catch a free screening of Kartemquin’s Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita at the Portage Indiana IMAX on August 3rd at 2pm. The event is being sponsored by the Northwest Indiana Spinal Cord Injury Group.

Portage 16 Theater 6550 US Highway 6 Portage, IN 46368

Kartemquin’s Maria Finitzo received her MFA in “Writing for the Stage and Screen” from Northwestern University in Evanston today. Congratulations Maria!

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.

Add Kartemquin’s recent doc, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, to your Netflix queue now. The stem cell doc joins the growing list of other Kartemquin titles available on Netflix today.

We are excited to announce that Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita has been accepted into the 3rd annual International Science Film Festival in Athens next month. The film will premiere in Greece on Wednesday May 21st at 8:00pm. Get more information.

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

Gordon Quinn and Maria Fintzo's journey to Virginia next week was recently covered by the Virginia Tech Collegiate Times. A reminder that both Golub: Late Works are the Catastrophes and Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita will be screened during events on campus next week.

Kartemquin staff members, and UW Madison alumni, Justine Nagan and Liz Kaar will be heading to Madison tomorrow for the 10th annual Wisconsin Film Festival. Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita is screening Sunday morning at the fest at 11:15am.

Kartemquin's Maria Finitzo will be participating in an event surrounding her recent film, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, at Virginia Tech in April. Finitzo will be visiting a class, participating on a panel, and answering questions following a screening of the film. The documentary will screen Monday April 14th, at 3:00pm. The event is free and open to the public. Get the details.

Kartemquin is happy to announce that Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita has been selected for the 2008 Wisconsin Film Festival. Get tickets here. This festival has special meaning as Madison, WI is where James Thomson and coworkers derived the first human embryonic stem cell line, and several of the film's crew are alumni of the University of Wisconsin. The Isthmus featured the film in a recent article about the festival.

Catch the webcast of Kartemquin's Maria Finitzo as she discusses Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita with bioethicist Cynthia B. Cohen at the National Cathedral this past weekend.

The screening was also featured on the dcist blog.

Kartemquin is excited to announce the Washington DC premiere of Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, Saturday, February 9th. Filmmakers Maria Finitzo and Justine Nagan will be in attendance. Get the details.

We hope that you are able to catch one of the national broadcasts this week of Kartemquin's Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita. Make sure you tell PBS's Independent Lens what you think in their Audience Award Poll. Vote now.

In anticipation for tonight's national premiere of Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, Director Maria Finitzo and Dr. Jack Kessler have been providing radio interviews about the film. Here are a few samples:

Dr. Kessler on WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show

Maria Finitzo on WBEZ's Eight Forty-Eight

Additionally, tonight's broadcast has been featured in several publications as recommended viewing for tonight. Check out this piece by the Chicago Tribune.

Filmmaker Maria Finitzo will appear tonight on WTTW's Chicago Tonight, at 7:00pm to discuss the upcoming national broadcast of Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita. The program will also be re-broadcast at 1:00am and 4:30am.

Maria can also be heard interviewed on WBEZ's morning radio program, Eight Forty-Eight, on Tuesday, January 15th (the day of the PBS broadcast) at 9am and again at 8pm. Tune in!

Chicago Magazine covers Kartemquin's Terra Incognita in a feature story in their January 2008 issue. Check it out on newsstands or read it online.

Kartemquin's latest doc, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, will have its American broadcast premiere on PBS' Independent Lens on January 15th and in the days afterwards. Check your local listings.

Additionally, in the coming weeks, the film will continue to screen in community venues across the country. Find out if it's showing in your neighborhood.

Lastly, watch and rate the trailer on Current TV!

Independent Lens recently hosted a community screening of Kartemquin's Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita in Philadelphia. The post film discussion included Father Tad who appears twice in the film and presents the Catholic church's perspective on embryonic stem cell research. Read about the event.

For those of you in Chicago who haven't yet had a chance to see Kartemquin's latest release, Terra Incognita, you're in luck! The film is screening this Saturday at the Chicago Cultural Center as a part of Independent Lens' Community Cinema program. The event is free and open to the public, and will conclude with a discussion of the film with filmmaker Maria Finitzo and Dr. Jack Kessler.

December 15, 2007, 2:00 PM

Chicago Cultural Center

78 E. Washington St.

Read a capsule review in The Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Kartemquin's Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita aired Sunday night across Canada on the CBC's popular series, "The Passionate Eye." Read viewers responses to the film.

Terra Incognita was also highlighted in The Toronto Star

Kartemquin's latest, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, is playing tomorrow afternoon at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle. Get tickets.

As a part of its Community Cinema program, PBS' series Independent Lens is screening the 60-minute version of Kartemquin's latest release, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, at venues around the country. These community events draw in local audiences for the screening and discussion afterwards. Check the list for an upcoming screening in your community.

Kartemquin's Maria Finitzo, Gordon Quinn and Justine Nagan just returned from IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, where the 60 minute version of Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita was in the Silver Wolf Competition. The film was screened 5 times followed by discussions with the filmmakers and audiences. Allison Kessler, one of the individuals featured in the film, attended the festival for the European premiere of the film.

Additionally, Gordon was one of five documentarians to participate in a panel entitled, "Debate: What Would You Do? Ethics inside and outside film" The panel was moderated by documentary ethicist Brian Winston, and covered social taboos and ethical issues posed in the documentary film process.

Kartemquin filmmakers Maria Finitzo and Justine Nagan were in Milwaukee last night for a screening of Terra Incognita, hosted by the DocUWM program and ITVS' Community Cinema Program. The auditorium was near capacity for the screening and the enthusiastic discussion afterwards. Special thanks to Brad, the DocUWM crew and Alterra Coffee for their hospitality.

Kartemquin's stem cell doc, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, won an "Award of Excellence" Accolade in the feature independent documentary category of this year's awards. The Accolades are a national competition "honoring outstanding craft and creativity in film, video, television and commercials." Clips of the winning works can be viewed here.

Join the members of Beth Emet The Free Synagogue in Evanston, IL, this Sunday at 10am for a screening of Kartemquin's Terra Incognita, followed by a discussion with Dr. Jack Kessler and Dr. Lori Zoloth from the film.

The screening is free and open to the public.

Beth Emet The Free Synagogue

1224 Dempster Evanston IL

Kartemquin Filmmaker, David E. Simpson, participated in the ITVS session during day 3 of the IFP Chicago Midwest Filmmaker Summit on Sunday. Simpson sat with Naomi Walker from ITVS and discussed his related experiences on his past film Refrigerator Mothers, and with his current ITVS funded doc-in-progress, Milking the Rhino. Naomi Walker is also presenting Kartemquin's Terra Incognita as a part of the Independent Lens' Community Cinema program in Chicago on December 15th.

At an awards ceremony in Chicago on Sunday, Kartemquin's stem cell doc, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, was awarded a Gold Hugo called "The Chicago Award" by the Chicago International Film Festival. Festival Competitions Coordinator Phil Bajorat explained the accolade, "As part of the Chicago International Film Festival’s special section focusing on local filmmakers, the Chicago Award is presented to a Chicago or Illinois artist for the best feature film, short film, or documentary. The Chicago Award applauds and celebrates the tireless efforts of regional talents who are devotees to the art of cinema and for their contributions to the medium." Director Maria Finitzo was at the ceremony to accept the award.

The Chicago Award Jury included: Mike McNamara (Executive Director of Midwest Independent Film Festival, Chicago); Malik Bader (filmmaker; last year's Chicago Award winner for Street Thief); and Annie Porter (Associate Producer for At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, Chicago).

The film screens tonight at AMC River East. Get tickets.

Also, Northwestern University's news team recently did a piece on the film, and Dr. Kessler, that is posted on You Tube. Watch the news story.

Kartemquin's stem cell doc, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, is going to screen in New Orleans on Sunday night, November 4th at 6:30pm as a part of Independent Lens' Community Cinema program. Get more information.

New Orleans

November 4, 2007, Sunday, 6:30 PM

Ashé Cultural Arts Center

1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

New Orleans, LA

Free Admission

Please join us in Milwaukee for a free screening of our stem cell doc, Terra Incognita, on November 7. Director/Producer Maria Finitzo and Associate Producer Justine Nagan will attend the event. Get more information.