November 2, 2016 11:14 am
August 3, 2016 4:45 pm
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.
May 27, 2016 5:29 pm
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
January 19, 2016 1:32 pm
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.
October 15, 2015 9:59 am
November 13, 2014 2:06 pm
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.
October 31, 2011 6:02 pm
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)!
October 6, 2011 5:12 pm
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.
September 22, 2011 10:19 am
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.
January 6, 2011 10:08 am
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.