- Director
- Steve James
- Producers
- Steve James
- Adam D. Singer
- Gordon Quinn
- Executive Producers
- Robert May
- Gordon Quinn
- Cinematography
- Dana Kupper
- Gordon Quinn
- Peter Gilbert
- Editors
- Steve James
- Bill Haugse
- Music Composed and Performed
- Dirk Powell
- Production Manager
- Karen Larson
- Post Production Supervisor
- Adam Singer
- Post Production Manager
- Leslie Simmer
- Location Sound
- Adam D. Singer
- Tom Yore
- Jim Fetterley

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.

Peter Gilbert

Adam Singer
Filmmaker Associate; Creative Committee Co-Chair
Adam D. Singer began working with Kartemquin Films in 1989, spending 5 years on the critically acclaimed documentary Hoop Dreams, and has continued his association with them ever since. He has worked on various productions, both nationally and internationally, as a producer, cameraman and sound recordist.

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