Founding Partner
Jerry Blumenthal, one of the founding partners of Kartemquin Films, was a director, producer, editor and sound recordist with Kartemquin from 1967 until his passing on November 13, 2014. His most recent completed work was as Editor on Kartemquin's 2010 documentary, Prisoner Of Her Past. Blumenthal's previous film, Golub: Late Works are the Catastrophes (2004), co-produced with Gordon Quinn, revisited the great American artist thirteen years after the award-winning Golub (1988) and was a selection at the 2004 IDFA. Vietnam, Long Time Coming (which he made with Quinn, Peter Gilbert and Adam Singer) aired on NBC and earned a national Emmy and the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Documentary of 1999. Among his many other films, Blumenthal lists The Last Pullman Car, the two Taylor Chain films, The Chicago Maternity Center Story, and the Palestinian story in Kartemquin's seven-hour PBS series, The New Americans (2004).
Read more about Jerry and listen to an audio recording of him discussing his life and work.
Read tributes to Jerry made after his death.
Films by Jerry Blumenthal
- A Good Man 2011
- Production Support for Kartemquin Films
- Prisoner of Her Past 2010
- A Film by, Editor
- Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes 2004
- Producers, Directors, Editor
- The New Americans 2003
- Palestinian Story Directors/Producers
- 5 Girls 2001
- Co-Executive Producer
- Vietnam, Long Time Coming 1998
- Producers, Directors, Sound
- Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries 1994
- Production Associates
- Grassroots Chicago 1991
- Producers
- Golub 1988
- Directors, Editor
- Women's Voices: The Gender Gap 1984
- Sound, Editor
- The Last Pullman Car 1983
- Producers and Directors, Writers, Sound
- Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining 1983
- Director, Editor, Sound
- Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local 1980
- Directors, Sound, Editor
- The Chicago Maternity Center Story 1976
- Made by
- HSA Strike '75 1975
- Production Associates
- UE/Wells 1975
- Producers, Directors
- Where's I. W. Abel? 1975
- Sound
- Now We Live on Clifton 1974
- Filmmakers
- Winnie Wright, Age 11 1974
- Assistance
- Sports-Action Pro-Files 1972
- Editor, Sound
- Hum 255 1970
- Filmmakers
- What the Fuck Are These Red Squares? 1970
- Sound, Editing
- Marco 1970
- Assistant Editor
- Home For Life 1966
- Additional Help