- Director/Producer
- Dinesh Sabu
- Editor
- Matt Lauterbach
- Written By
- Matt Lauterbach
- Dinesh Sabu
- Co-Producer
- R. Patrick Lile
- Cinematography
- Ian Kibbe
- Dinesh Sabu
- Composer
- Joshua Abrams
- Executive Producer
- Gordon Quinn
- Betsy Steinberg
- Justine Nagan
- Melissa Sage Fadim
- Leslie Simmer
- Outreach/Marketing
- Diane Moy Quon
- Outreach Coordinator
- Max Asaf
- Outreach Advisor
- Anushri Singhvi
- Consulting Editor
- Nora Gully
- Gordon Quinn
- Leslie Simmer
- Additional Editing
- Hillary Bachelder
- Katerina Simic
- Additional Cinematography
- Tom Bailey
- Sandeep Sabu
- Sound Recording
- R. Patrick Lile
- Jonathan Vogel
- Post Production Manager
- Ryan Gleeson
- Post Production Assistant
- Eugene Kobayashi
- Additional Producing
- Jennifer B. Wells
- Color Correction Facility
- 11 Dollar Bill
- Colorist
- Clark Jackson
- AUDIO POST FACILITY
- Another Country
- Re-Recording Mixer
- Drew Weir
- Audio Post Supervisor
- Tim Konn
- Executive Director, Kartemquin Films
- Betsy Steinberg
- Director of Finance and Operations
- Anthony Stoll
- Finance Manager
- Pedro Urgiles
- Finance Assistant
- Viorica Mereuta
- Director of Communications and Distribution
- Tim Horsburgh
- Community Engagement and Programs Manager
- Emily Strong
- Technical Director
- Jim Morrissette
- Production Manager
- Nancy McDonald
- Post Production Associate
- Carlos Cova
- Marketing and Distirbution Associate
- Julia Martin
- Director of Development
- Joanna Lakatos
- Data and Administrative Coordinator
- Max Asaf
- Kartemquin Staff
- Alanna Schmelter
- Alex Skalomenos
- Alex Stein
- Alison Hanold
- Andrew Jones
- Beth Iams
- Cate Ryan
- Christine McAlonan
- Eleanor Bryan
- Elizabeth Neufeld
- Gregory Collins
- Jacinta Banks
- Jennie Gambach
- Lindsey Bahr
- Liz Kaar
- Maria Galent
- Nicole Gotthelf
- Rachel Dickson
- Tamara Fouche
- Will Thwaites
- Yvonne Afable
- Kartemquin Intern
- Bucher Almzain
- Max Asaf
- Hillary Bachelder
- Phillip Batta
- Chris Bentley
- Andrea Blake
- Ryan Buckley
- Madeleine Burdzy
- Ranjani Chakraborty
- Reid Compton
- Alexandra Cox
- Marcus Davis
- Rachel Dickson
- Dain Evans
- Nick Fraccaro
- Kevin Fullam
- Rosa Gaia Saunders
- Rachel Glass
- Hans Glick
- Martine Granby
- Blake Griffin
- Elena Guobyte
- Douglas Henry
- Anna Hull
- Marriah Kern
- Nushmia Khan
- Tracy Ko
- Naomi Kothbauer
- Kristin Leffler
- Lauren Makholm
- Thomas Matthew
- Rondel Merrill
- Ashley Mills
- Jessica Naudziunas
- Eileen O'Donnell
- Orion Pahl
- Jeff Perlman
- Katie Prentiss
- Joe Riina-Ferrie
- Hannah Roodman
- Ben Schamisso
- Ayesha Siddiqi
- Alex Skalomenos
- Natalie Stone
- Eve Studnicka
- Isabella Szabolcs
- Will Thwaites
- Stanzi Vaubel
- Julian Walker
- Cassie Wierenga
- Justin Williams
- Wei Ying
- Kristen Zelenka
Dinesh Sabu
Dinesh Sabu made his first feature documentary Unbroken Glass with Kartemquin. It played at numerous film festivals and was broadcast on America ReFramed’s 5th Season in May 2017. Dinesh was awarded “Best Director” at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in 2017 for his debut feature.
Matt Lauterbach
Matt Lauterbach is a documentary filmmaker and editor, an educational media developer, and an advocate for accessible media. He crafts engaging non-fiction content for classrooms, museums, and the big screen.

R. Patrick Lile

Ian Kibbe
Ian Robertson Kibbe is a freelance filmmaker, writer, producer and musician with over 10 years experience as a producer, director and editor. Ian was the engagement coordinator for the award-winning PBS documentary, The Calling, and its companion campaign, What’s Your Calling (The Kindling Group) and also the engagement coordinator for the Emmy nominated, designer cult hit, Typeface (Kartemquin Films). Ian is currently working on the upcoming Kartemquin documentaries, Raising Bertie and Unbroken Glass. Ian's work has appeared on PBS, CNN, G4, The Health Care Blog, Billboard Magazine and the Huffington Post.

Joshua Abrams

Gordon Quinn
Founder and Artistic Director
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.

Justine Nagan
From 2008-2015, Justine led Kartemquin Films as Executive Director as well as being an Executive Producer on each new film. She was responsible, in concert with the Board of Directors, for creating and implementing the strategic vision for Kartemquin. Justine successfully transitioned to the ED role in a historic founder-led organization, and made major strides in building a foundation for long-term sustainability.

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

Diane Moy Quon
Diane Quon is an Academy Award-nominated producer who worked as a marketing executive for 17 years at NBC and at Paramount Pictures before moving back to her hometown of Chicago.

Hillary Bachelder
Hillary Bachelder is a documentary director, cinematographer, and editor. She is the former Director of Production at Kartemquin Films and earned both editing and production credits on over a dozen of the company’s critically acclaimed films and series, including the Emmy-award-winning Trials of Muhammad Ali, POV’s Raising Bertie, and Oscar nominated Minding the Gap. In 2015, she was selected to participate in the prestigious Sundance Documentary Edit and Storytelling lab as an up-and-coming editor of promise.

Ryan Gleeson
Ryan Gleeson is a documentary filmmaker based in Chicago, Illinois. After cutting his teeth on his parents' VHSC camcorder and spending a summer editing Hyphenated Humor with the late Jerry Blumenthal, Ryan spent half a decade at Kartemquin Films involving himself in a variety of ways, including but not limited to film production, workflow planning, tape archiving, event planning, and gallery curation. He rose to be Kartemquin's Post-Production Manager.

Eugene Kobayashi
Post-Production Assistant

Pedro Urgiles
Pedro is the Finance Manager at Kartemquin Films. He assists the Director of Finance & Operations in planning and organizing the activities of day-to-day accounting functions. His responsibilities include overseeing accounts payable, accounts receivable, monthly intercompany processes, and payroll. His interest in documentary films stems from watching Spellbound at a young age as he prepared for a citywide spelling bee.

Tim Horsburgh
Tim Horsburgh is an independent producer and consultant dedicated to the development, production, marketing, distributing, and impact of award-winning, impactful documentary films.
Serving on Kartemquin staff from 2009-2021, he was most recently Kartemquin’s Director of Film Strategy, leading the organization's original documentaries through their collaborative production model; industry outreach, strategic initiatives, and brand-building; and serving as the point of contact for Kartemquin Producers and Associates.

Jim Morrissette
Technical Director Emeritus
For over thirty-five years, Jim Morrissette has had extensive experience as both a professional videographer and teacher, supporting his conviction that sharing and access are instrumental to the vitality of the independent production community.

Carlos Cova
A recent graduate from the Northwestern University's Documentary Media MFA, Carlos joins Kartemquin seeking to take part in socially relevant and impactful filmmaking. In the summer of 2015, Carlos was an intern at Kartemquin, helping in different tasks for the communications and outreach of films like Raising Bertie, Almost There and In the Game.

Alanna Schmelter

Liz Kaar

Rachel Dickson
Rachel Dickson is an independent filmmaker based in Chicago with a background in journalism and Spanish translation. She produced ‘63 Boycott with Kartemquin Films, which was named on the Academy Awards shortlist for Best Documentary Short Subject, won the Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at the Nashville Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, and was an official selection of the Museum of Modern Art Doc Fortnight and the DOC NYC Short List.

Yvonne Afable
Board Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair
Yvonne P. Afable was Kartemquin's Director of Finance from 2004-2012, before transitioning to the Board of Directors. A graduate of DePaul University, Yvonne has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting & Finance. She is a Certified Management Accountant with 16 years of accounting experience. She was an auditor for two years before beginning her career in the not-for-profit industry. She monitored the budget and assisted with investments for the American College of Surgeons before becoming the Assistant Accounting Manager.