- Producer/Director
- Bing Liu
- Producer
- Diane Moy Quon
- Editor
- Bing Liu
- Joshua Altman
- Original Music
- Nathan Halpern
- Chris Ruggiero
- Executive Producer
- Steve James
- Gordon Quinn
- Betsy Steinberg
- Justine Nagan
- Chris White
- Sally Jo Fifer
- Motion Graphics
- Jesse Kerman
- Sound Mix
- Jim LeBrecht, Berkeley Sound Artists
- Colorist
- Tyler Roth, Company 3 Chicago
- Cinematography
- Bing Liu
- Featuring
- Zack Mulligan
- Kiere Johnson
- With
- Kent Abernathy
- Mengyue Bolen
- Nina Bowgren
- Bing Liu
- Supervising Producer for ITVS
- Michael Kinomoto
- Post-Production Supervisor
- Ryan Gleeson
- Assistant Editors
- Carlos Cova
- Sebastian Pinzon Silva
- Additional Camera Op.
- Philipp Batta
- Additional Sound
- Hayden Jackson
- Additional Production Support
- Kent Abernathy
- Amanda Brinton
- Additional Colorist
- Parker Jarvie
- Re-Recording Mixers
- James Lebrecht
- Erik Reimers
- Sound Design
- Bijan Sharifi
- Graphic Design
- Nicole Vettriano
- Communications and Distribution
- Tim Horsburgh
- Director of Production
- Risé Sander-Weir
- Consulting Producer
- Maggie Bowman
- Finance and Operations
- Andrea de Fraga
- Director of Editing
- Leslie Simmer
- Technical Director
- Jim Morrissette
- Director of Development
- Joanna Lakatos
- Engagement Manager
- Emily Strong
- Documentary Coordinator
- Anu Rana

Bing Liu
Bing is a Chicago-based director and cinematographer who Variety Magazine listed as one of 10 documentary filmmakers to watch. His 2018 critically acclaimed documentary Minding the Gap has earned a total of 28 award recognitions since its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it took home the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking.

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.

Steve James
Steve James' affiliation with Kartemquin began in 1987 with the start of production of Hoop Dreams, for which he served as director, producer, and co-editor. He has since then become one of the most acclaimed documentary makers of his generation, with noted works being Stevie, The New Americans, The War Tapes, At the Death House Door, The Interrupters, Life Itself, and most recently the 2018 Academy Award®-nominated Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.

Gordon Quinn
Founder and Senior Advisor
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.

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.

Carlos Cova
A recent graduate from the Northwestern University's Documentary Media MFA, Carlos joins Kartemquin seeking to take part in socially relevant and impactful filmmaking. In the summer of 2015, Carlos was an intern at Kartemquin, helping in different tasks for the communications and outreach of films like Raising Bertie, Almost There and In the Game.

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.

Maggie Bowman
Maggie Bowman is a documentary film producer and director. She is the co-director of We Are Witnesses: Chicago—a series of short films about Chicagoans who have been touched by the criminal justice system. The series, released in September 2019, is a collaboration with The Marshall Project and Illinois Humanities.

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

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.