War/Anti-War

Monday, March 23, 2015 3:00 pm

Chicago Cultural Center - GAR Hall and Rotunda
77 East Randolph Street
Chicago, IL

The Indie Caucus, along with WTTW, WNET, PBS, POV, Independent Lens, and ITVS, will be in Chicago for the third and final stop in the National Listening Tour for Independent Films on PBS.

Hosted by
Kartemquin Films,
371 Productions,
Chicago Film Office, and
City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events

Make your voice heard on the last stop of the PBS Listening Tour in Chicago. This is your chance to help set the priorities and share ideas around strengthening viewership, distribution, and community engagement of independent film.

It's our final chance to be heard. We need YOU to be there and to speak up. Please rsvp here: https://pbslisteningtourchicago.eventbrite.com

If you are in or around Chicago, please join this important conversation.

Friday, November 9, 2018 6:30 pm

Muslim Education Center
8601 Menard Avenue
Morton Grove, IL
To commemorate Veterans Day 2018, Kartemquin Films and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, are pleased to present the national film premiere of Loyalty: Stories on Friday, November 9, 2018. This is a free event with a public reception (light dinner + drinks), film screening and conversation. Details here.

Thursday, November 8, 2018 5:30 pm

Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St
Chicago, IL
Loyalty: Stories will screen at the Chicago Cultural Center on November 8th at 5:30pm. Presented by Kartemquin Films and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation to commemorate Veterans Day 2018. Details here.

Thursday, August 4, 2016 1:00 pm

Qala-e-Afghanan
Sarak-e-Shura Stop, Darullaman Road
Kabul,
Saving Mes Aynak will be screening on August 4th 2016 at 1p.m. at the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan's main office: Qala-e-Afghanan located at Sarak-e-Shura Stop, Darullaman Road, Kabul. For more info on this screening please call +93 7000 23 15 90 or +93 708 21 65 66, or you can email info@hambastagi.org.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 1:30 pm

Skokie Theatre
7924 Lincoln Ave
Skokie,

Ed Tracy presents the Kartemquin Film Prisoners of Her Past a powerful documentary detailing Sophie Reich dealing with personal ghosts from the Holocaust, Fascism, her refugee status, and World War II.

Emmy Award-winning Chicago Tribune journalist and author Howard Reich will be the special guest at CONVERSATIONS with Ed Tracy at the Skokie Theatre on Wednesday, April 20th at 1:30 pm. The program is part of the new monthly interview series hosted by Ed Tracy featuring authors and influential leaders in the arts, media and business. Reich, a Skokie native, has covered the arts for the Tribune since 1978 and authored five books including the work that inspired the Kartemquin Films documentary, Prisoner of Her Past. As the producer, writer and narrator of the film, Reich brings the audience on a journey through the United States and Eastern Europe uncovering his mother’s traumatic past that has returned to haunt her.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Chicago-based Kartemquin Films, an internationally-recognized documentary company dedicated to producing films that sparks conversation and engagement. A book signing sponsored by The Book Stall at Chestnut Court follows.

$10 Advance Reservations are suggested: Skokie Theatre or call: 847-677-7761

For more information, visit: Conversations with Ed Tracy

Saving Mes Aynak comes to Kartemquin

July 1, 2014 2:31 pm

Undiscovered for 2,000 years, it survived revolution, invasion and war. Now destruction looms again: this is the story of Saving Mes Aynak.

Director/producer Brent Huffman, a documentary maker and film professor at Northwestern University, has been independently shooting at the Mes Aynak site in Afghanistan since 2011, and has now brought the documentary to Kartemquin Films.

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