- Producer/Director
- Maria Finitzo
- Producer
- Mary Morrissette
- Executive Producers
- Gordon Quinn
- Justine Nagan
- Editors
- Katerina Simic
- Leslie Simmer
- Liz Kaar
- Directors of Cinematography
- Peter Gilbert
- Dana Kupper
- Ines Sommer
- Original Music
- Sam Kassirer
- Associate Producers
- Shuling Yong
- Kristina Divjak Eschmeyer
- Outreach Coordinator
- Diane Moy Quon
- Sound
- John Mathie
- Matt Vogel
- Sharon Frye
- Zak Piper
- Fenell Doremus
- Cody Wallace
- Technical Director
- Jim Morrissette
- High Definition Finish
- Nolo Digital Film
- Digital Colorist
- Elliot Rudmann
- Online Edit
- Boris Seagraves
- Producer at Nolo Digital Film
- Joe Flanagan
- Sound Mix
- Mark Bandy
- Titles & Graphics
- Dan Sharkey
- Jenna Caravello
- Additional camera
- Jim Morrissette
- Keith Walker
- Adam Singer
- Ian Kibbe
- Shuling Yong
- Jeff Perlman
- Additional Editor
- Nora Gully
- Post-Production Supervisor
- Ryan Gleeson
- Post-Production Manager
- Hillary Bachelder
- Matt Lauterbach
- Assistant Editor
- Eugene Kobayashi
- Production assistants
- Mary Scherer
- Rachel Rozycki
- Rachel Dickson
- William Thwaites
- Translation
- Biliana Grozdanova
- Transcription
- Brent Bandemer
- Ruben Daniels, Jr.
- Evan Dolan
- Kate Donalek
- Kevin Hammontree
- Stacy Moon
- Eileen O'Donnell
- Emily Strong
- Kartemquin Director of Finance and Operations
- Suzanne Niemoth
- Kartemquin Director of Communications and Distribution
- Tim Horsburgh
- Kartemquin Director of Programs and Engagement
- Beckie Stocchetti
- Accounting Managers
- Alex Stein
- Marriah Kern
- Kartemquin Staff
- Eleanor Bryan
- Alison Hanold
- Nancy McDonald
- Alanna Schmelter
- Alex Skalamenos
- Kartemquin Production Assistants
- Bucher Almzain
- Arpita Aneja
- Hillary Bachelder
- Brent Bandemer
- Phillip Batta
- Ryan Bedore
- Chris Bentley
- Andrea Blake
- Ryan Buckley
- Clancy Calkins
- Ranjani Chakraborty
- Melissa Coleman
- Reid Compton
- Alexandra Cox
- Rubin Daniels, Jr.
- Brooklyn Demme
- Rachel Dickson
- Evan Dolan
- Dain Evans
- John Fecile
- Nick Fraccaro
- Kevin Fullam
- Spenser Gabin
- Brian Gersten
- Rachel Glass
- Ryan Gleeson
- Hans Glick
- Kazuko Golden
- Martine Granby
- David Granskog
- Biliana Grozdanova
- Elena Guobyte
- Kevin Hammontree
- Mary Horan
- Morgan Johnson
- Marriah Kern
- Nushmia Khan
- Tracy Ko
- Eugene Kobayashi
- Naomi Kothbauer
- Patrick Lile
- Lauren Makholm
- Hley Martin
- Thomas Mathew
- Aniluz Mercedes
- Rondell Merrill
- Stacy Moon
- Jessica Naudziunas
- Gabrielle Ntsimi
- Eileen O'Donnell
- Orion Pahl
- Jeff Perlman
- Katie Prentiss
- Joe Riina-Ferrie
- Hannah Roodman
- Rachel Rozycki
- Rosa Gaia Saunders
- Ben Schamisso
- Matt Sezer
- Ayesha Siddiqi
- Philister Sidigu
- Alex Skalomenos
- Nehemiah Stark
- Natalie Stone
- Emily Strong
- Stephanie Sunata
- Daria Taylor
- Will Thwaites
- Stanzi Vaubel
- Jonathan Vogel
- Julian Walker
- Cody Wallace
- Cassie Wierenga
- Justin Williams
- Felix Ofosu Yeboah
- Kristen Zelenka
- Funding provided by
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Illinois Arts Council
- Illinois Humanities Council

Maria Finitzo

Mary Morrissette

Gordon Quinn
Founder and Artistic Director
Artistic Director and founding member of Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for over 50 years. Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun Times, called his first film Home for Life (1966) "an extraordinarily moving documentary." With Home for Life Gordon established the direction he would take for the next four decades, making cinéma vérité films that investigate and critique society by documenting the unfolding lives of real people.

Justine Nagan
From 2008-2015, Justine led Kartemquin Films as Executive Director as well as being an Executive Producer on each new film. She was responsible, in concert with the Board of Directors, for creating and implementing the strategic vision for Kartemquin. Justine successfully transitioned to the ED role in a historic founder-led organization, and made major strides in building a foundation for long-term sustainability.

Leslie Simmer
Director of Editing, Senior Editor on Staff
Leslie Simmer is Kartemquin's Director of Editing as well as Senior Editor on staff.

Liz Kaar

Peter Gilbert

Ines Sommer

Shuling Yong
Shuling Yong is a Singapore-born, Chicago-based documentary filmmaker, sound recordist and DP with a passion for social change. She has worked on films like Radical Grace (Hot Docs, 2015, dir. Rebecca Parrish), America to Me (Sundance, 2018, dir. Steve James), and And She Could Be Next (dir. Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia).

Diane Moy Quon
Diane Quon is an Academy Award-nominated producer who worked as a marketing executive for 17 years at NBC and at Paramount Pictures before moving back to her hometown of Chicago.

Zak Piper
Zak is an Emmy and PGA award-winning documentary filmmaker who has made films for over 15 years.
Currently, Zak is producing several feature films: City So Real with producer/director Steve James; Until the Lion Speaks (working title), for Concordia Studio, with co-directors Bing Liu and Joshua Altman; and The Ants and the Grasshopper (working title), a film he is also co-directing/producing with Raj Patel and producer Rachel Wexler.

Fenell Doremus
Filmmaker Associate
Fenell Doremus has worked in documentary film since graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a BA in Sociology. She began her career as an Assistant Editor on the award-winning Hoop Dreams. She went on to serve as staff Producer at Kartemquin Films for the next eight years. While at Kartmequin, Doremus was Segment Producer and a Segment Editor (Palestinian story) of The New Americans.

Jim Morrissette
Technical Director Emeritus
For over thirty-five years, Jim Morrissette has had extensive experience as both a professional videographer and teacher, supporting his conviction that sharing and access are instrumental to the vitality of the independent production community.

Keith Walker

Ian Kibbe
Ian Robertson Kibbe is a freelance filmmaker, writer, producer and musician with over 10 years experience as a producer, director and editor. Ian was the engagement coordinator for the award-winning PBS documentary, The Calling, and its companion campaign, What’s Your Calling (The Kindling Group) and also the engagement coordinator for the Emmy nominated, designer cult hit, Typeface (Kartemquin Films). Ian is currently working on the upcoming Kartemquin documentaries, Raising Bertie and Unbroken Glass. Ian's work has appeared on PBS, CNN, G4, The Health Care Blog, Billboard Magazine and the Huffington Post.

Ryan Gleeson
Ryan Gleeson is a documentary filmmaker based in Chicago, Illinois. After cutting his teeth on his parents' VHSC camcorder and spending a summer editing Hyphenated Humor with the late Jerry Blumenthal, Ryan spent half a decade at Kartemquin Films involving himself in a variety of ways, including but not limited to film production, workflow planning, tape archiving, event planning, and gallery curation. He rose to be Kartemquin's Post-Production Manager.

Hillary Bachelder
Hillary Bachelder is a documentary director, cinematographer, and editor. She is the former Director of Production at Kartemquin Films and earned both editing and production credits on over a dozen of the company’s critically acclaimed films and series, including the Emmy-award-winning Trials of Muhammad Ali, POV’s Raising Bertie, and Oscar nominated Minding the Gap. In 2015, she was selected to participate in the prestigious Sundance Documentary Edit and Storytelling lab as an up-and-coming editor of promise.
Matt Lauterbach
Matt Lauterbach is a documentary filmmaker and editor, an educational media developer, and an advocate for accessible media. He crafts engaging non-fiction content for classrooms, museums, and the big screen.

Eugene Kobayashi
Post-Production Assistant

Rachel Dickson
Rachel Dickson is an independent filmmaker based in Chicago with a background in journalism and Spanish translation. She produced ‘63 Boycott with Kartemquin Films, which was named on the Academy Awards shortlist for Best Documentary Short Subject, won the Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at the Nashville Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, and was an official selection of the Museum of Modern Art Doc Fortnight and the DOC NYC Short List.

Suzanne Niemoth
Suzanne, the Vice President of Finance & Operations at Kartemquin, is a non-profit finance, operations and accounting expert dedicated to building stronger non-profit organizations through better fiscal management and organizational efficiency. Suzanne has a decade of professional experience focused on strengthening the internal capacity of charitable organizations. She believes that navigating the financial challenges unique to non-profits requires a high level of financial accountability, transparency, and integrity. In her role at Kartemquin, Suzanne is responsible for all aspects of the organization’s financial management, general operations, human resources, compliance, information technology, legal affairs and risk management.

Tim Horsburgh
Tim Horsburgh is an independent producer and consultant dedicated to the development, production, marketing, distributing, and impact of award-winning, impactful documentary films.
Serving on Kartemquin staff from 2009-2021, he was most recently Kartemquin’s Director of Film Strategy, leading the organization's original documentaries through their collaborative production model; industry outreach, strategic initiatives, and brand-building; and serving as the point of contact for Kartemquin Producers and Associates.
