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Announcing the 2022 Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) Fellows

March 10, 2022 10:09 am

Kartemquin Films and the Community Film Workshop of Chicago today announced the six new 2022 Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) fellows.

Welcoming the 9th cohort, DVID is a professional mentorship program for Midwestern documentary filmmakers of color, created by Kartemquin Films and the Community Film Workshop of Chicago. Fellows are chosen from a pool of applicants with a demonstrated commitment to social issue documentary.

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Kartemquin Awarded Preservation Assistance Grant from NEH

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.

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Minding the Gap included as part of the 2021 Criterion Collection

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).

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First Projects Announced for Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator

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.

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Gordon Quinn Returns Home; AIDC Masterclass Available

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.

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Minding the Gap wins 2019 Grierson Award

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.

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Contaminated Memories; Kartemquin staff and filmmakers on panels at CIFF

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.

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Announcing the Diverse Voices Accelerator Fund and Emerging Storyteller Fund Grantees

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.

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Nanfu Wang to provide keynote at Oct 12 Diverse Voices in Docs graduation; 2020 DVID applications now open

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.

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Minding the Gap nominated for 2019 Emmy Award

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.

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