WTTW, Chicago's premier public television station, will broadcast Kartemquin's 1998 Vietnam, Long Time Coming at 3PM on Sunday November 13, in honor of Veterans Day and Kartemquin's 50th anniversary. Continued

WTTW, Chicago's premiere public television station, will broadcast Typeface at 10 pm on Friday, August 5th as part of a year-long series honoring our 50th anniversary. Continued

From today until next Friday, June 3rd, the free KTQ50 films are Vietnam, Long Time Coming (1998). "Vietnam: Long Time Coming registers as a heroic and essential piece of filmmaking that will surely be cherished in years to come." — Jonathan Rosembaum, Chicago Reader Continued

WTTW, Chicago's premier public television station, will broadcast a year-long series of Kartemquin's award-winning films in honor of our 50th anniversary. The monthly series will feature films from each decade of Kartemquin’s history, including the classic Hoop Dreams (1994), which will air in June 2016, to coincide with a Kartemquin “Milestones” gala celebration at the Chicago Cultural Center and Harris Theater on June 24, and an art exhibition running May-August at Expo 72. Continued

The International Documentary Association (IDA) will present its prestigious 2015 Career Achievement Award to Gordon Quinn, Founder and Artistic Director of Kartemquin Films. Gordon will receive the honor at the 31st Annual IDA Documentary Awards at Paramount Pictures' Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, December 5, 2015. Previous winners of the illustrious award include Robert Redford, Werner Herzog, Barbara Kopple, DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Ricky Leacock, Albert Maysles, Frederick Wiseman, Henry Hampton, Robert Drew, Michael Moore, Marcel Ophuls, Jean Rouch, Walter Cronkite, and Bill Moyers. Continued

It is with great sadness that we announce that Kartemquin founding partner Jerry Blumenthal passed away today. At the core of Kartemquin since our earliest days in the 1960s, Jerry has a credit on our very first film, Home for Life, and was working with us this year to finish projects on the artist Gerda Bernstein, and Murder the Prepositions, about the poet Les Bridges. Continued

These are busy times at KTQ. Eleven different Kartemquin documentaries are screening around the USA this week alone, with over forty cumulative screenings total (we have to estimate because we don't know yet just how many times The Interrupters might screen this weekend)!   Continued

An eight-film retrospective spanning every decade of Kartemquin Films' 45 year history will be part of the 2011 Virginia Film Festival this November 3-9, 2001. The tribute will include the state premieres of our new releases The Interrupters and A Good Man, with appearances from Bill T. Jones and co-director Gordon Quinn, and The Interrupters, with director Steve James present. Both Steve James and Gordon Quinn were born in Virginia.   Continued

Kartemquin would like to thank outgoing Chair Steve Whisnant for his years of service to the organization. Steve has been a friend of Kartemquin since his involvement on 1998's Vietnam: Long Time Coming, and was the first board Chair elected to Kartemquin's inaugural working board, formed in 2007 as a result of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Steve will continue to sit on the board and share his expertise. Current board member Adrianne Furniss was voted Board Chair unanimously by the board at Friday's meeting, following Thursday night's celebration . She has been a board member for the past two years and brings a wealth of experience in film management, strategic planning and media distribution.   Continued

Kartemquin's award-winning documentary 5 Girls is now available for free instant watching on the iPad, thanks to a new app launched today by SnagFilms. Read about the launch and download the app from iTunes. Continued