August 13, 2010 6:48 am
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded the Kartemquin documentary The Interrupters a production grant of $200,000. The grant will allow director/producer Steve James and write/producer Alex Kotlowitz to finish production on the film, which will be broadcast on PBS’ Frontline.
July 1, 2010 9:59 am
Congratulations are due to The Interrupters production team, who were yesterday announced as recipients of a production grant from the Sundance Documentary Film Program. The Sundance press release noted that the film was one of only 18 selected out of 750 applicants from 111 countries, and marked "a new resurgence of nonfiction filmmaking on the world
June 30, 2010 5:10 pm
Kartemquin director Steve James took his upcoming film The Interrupters to the 2010 Silverdocs International Documentary Conference last week to participate in the prestigious Good Pitch event.
June 15, 2010 5:08 pm
Kartemquin is delighted to have received funding for two in-progress films - A Good Man and The Interrupters - in the most recent round of funding from ITVS (The Independent Television Service). Read about the funding on the ITVS website. Kartemquin would like to congratulate all our partners on these two projects, which will both be completed in 2011.
May 21, 2010 4:42 pm
Steve James' in-progress Kartemquin documentary The Interrupters is one of 8 social issue documentaries selected for the prestigious Good Pitch @Silverdocs showcase. The June 23rd, Washington D.C.
March 12, 2010 9:47 am
Kartemquin is proud to announce that The Interrupters has been selected as one of 10 finalists for a 2010 San Francisco Film Society / Film Arts Foundation Documentary grant. The winner of the $25,000 grant will be announced on May 5 at the SFIFF53 Golden Gate Awards. Get more information.
February 16, 2010 10:50 am
Director/producer Steve James and writer/producer Alex Kotlowitz, currently in production on the forthcoming Kartemquin documentary The Interrupters, will discuss the intersections of film and nonfiction in a free talk at Northwestern University next week. The talk takes place on February 23rd at 5:30pm at Northwestern's Evanston campus.
December 22, 2009 12:12 pm
Kartemquin is proud to release the video of noted author and journalist Alex Kotlowitz (There Are No Children Here) delivering the keynote speech from our recent 15th anniversary celebration of Hoop Dreams. Discussing the impact of the film, his current film collaboration with director Steve James (
November 25, 2009 11:01 am
Acclaimed Kartemquin filmmaker Steve James will attend the Chinese premieres of his award-winning documentaries Hoop Dreams and Stevie this December in Beijing.
November 23, 2009 3:14 pm
Kartemquin is proud to announce two groundbreaking new documentaries, currently in development in Chicago.