August 27, 2021 9:39 am
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $28.4 million in grants for 239 humanities projects across the country. Kartemquin is pleased to announce its selection as a Preservation Assistance grant recipient.
October 19, 2020 1:55 pm
Every year the Criterion Collection selects a handful of films to remaster and release with extra features that they consider to be worth a deeper dive. The Criterion Collection announced that it will add six new titles to its Blu-ray/DVD catalog in January including Bing Liu's Minding The Gap (New cover by Katherine Lam) (2018).
May 6, 2020 10:09 am
Kartemquin Films announced the two projects that will participate in the first year of the Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator: Traces of Home by director Colette Ghunim and Tres Fridas by director Reveca Torres.
April 29, 2020 10:39 am
The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) has released the audio of Gordon Quinn's producing masterclass, held in Melbourne in March 2020. For over 50 years, Gordon and Kartemquin Films have been at the forefront of documentary making in the US, not only embracing but also epitomising collaborative practices, championing new voices, and leading the way in the fight for independent media.
November 15, 2019 11:39 am
Minding the Gap, the Academy Award-nominated film directed, produced, and edited by Bing Liu and produced by Diane Quon, today was awarded the 2019 Grierson Award for Best Cinema Documentary at the Grierson Awards ceremony on Thursday, November 14.
October 9, 2019 3:14 pm
Contaminated Memories, directed and produced by Debra Tolchinsky, will screen at the 55th Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF) as part of the fest's Shorts 1: Here. Now. program.
October 1, 2019 9:03 am
Kartemquin Films today announced the 12 documentary projects that will receive Diverse Voices Accelerator Fund and Emerging Storyteller Fund grants.
Kartemquin will celebrate the grantees and provide previews of select works-in-progress that received the funding at the organization’s 2nd annual Empowering Truth Benefit Luncheon on October 29 at The Standard Club in Chicago, IL.
September 26, 2019 3:43 pm
Kartemquin Films and the Community Film Workshop of Chicago are thrilled to announce award-winning filmmaker Nanfu Wang (One Child Nation, Hooligan Sparrow) will provide the keynote speech at the 2019 Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) graduation on October 12 at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago. The event will include exclusive previews of each of the eight in-progress works by the current DVID fellows. The graduation is free and open to the public.
July 16, 2019 11:20 am
Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu and produced by Diane Quon, today received a nomination for a 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.
The 2019 Emmy Awards will air September 22 on Fox.
May 23, 2019 12:37 pm
This past Saturday members of Kartemquin's staff, board, and filmmaking community attended the 2019 Peabody Awards ceremony in New York City to accept an Institutional Award on behalf of the organization– and to celebrate Minding the Gap's Documentary Award.