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.
April 16, 2019 1:21 pm
The Peabody Awards today announced that Kartemquin Films will receive an Institutional Award at the 78th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony on Saturday, May 18 in New York City.
We are also delighted to share that Minding the Gap will receive a 2019 Peabody Award for Documentary at the May ceremony.
April 9, 2019 2:38 pm
Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu and produced by Diane Quon, earned a nomination this Tuesday for a 2019 George Foster Peabody Award, one of the highest honors in broadcast and digital media.
March 19, 2019 4:50 pm
We're excited to share that Kartemquin Films is partnering with Freep Film Festival, held April 10-14 in Detroit, to host a conversation on filmmaker sustainability and a special rough cut lab. Both events bring to Detroit for the first time initiatives and expertise Kartemquin has pioneered as part of its acclaimed filmmaker development programs and advocacy on behalf of the documentary field.
January 28, 2019 1:44 pm
Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu and produced by Diane Quon, will make its world television broadcast premiere on the PBS documentary series POV and pov.org on Monday, February 18 at 9pm/8c (check local listings).