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Abacus wins the ABA Silver Gavel Award

May 23, 2018
Academy Award®-nominated Abacus: Small Enough to Jail was announced today as the recipient of the 2018 American Bar Association Award for Media and the Arts in the television category! The Silver Gavel Awards are intended to "recognize outstanding (continued …)

Keep Talking plays Kodiak Crabfest; Heritage Celebration in Juneau

May 23, 2018
Keep Talking, the award-winning directorial debut from Karen Lynn Weinberg, travels back to Alaska for three screenings this May and June! Saturday, May 26 at 6:00PM - Kodiak Crabfest Wednesday, June 6 at 7:00PM - Sealaska Heritage Celebration (continued …)

'63 Boycott wins Best Short Documentary at the Adrian International Film Festival

May 22, 2018
'63 Boycott, a film by Rachel Dickson, Tracye A. Matthews, and Gordon Quinn, won the Best Short Documentary Award at the Adrian International Film Festival this past weekend! Previous awards for the film include the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short (continued …)

Minding the Gap wins Grand Prix at Docs Against Gravity; Grand Jury Prize at Nashville Film Festival

May 21, 2018
Making the most up-to-date tally of Minding the Gap's festival award recognitions a staggering 22 in total, just this past weekend the film earned the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Grand Prix, the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Lower Silesia (continued …)

Steve James announced as 2018 AFI DOCS Guggenheim Honoree

May 18, 2018
Kartemquin is thrilled to share that long-time Kartemquin associate Steve James has been announced as the 2018 AFI DOCS Charles Guggenheim Symposium honoree. Read the official release from AFI DOCS here. James will be honored on June 14 at 6:30PM (continued …)

Now We Live on Clifton featured at the Art Institute of Chicago

May 16, 2018
Kartemquin is excited to share that our 1974 film Now We Live on Clifton is now featured in the Art Institute of Chicago's new exhibition, 'Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950-1980.' The exhibit runs through October 28. (continued …)

'63 Boycott wins Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Nashville Film Festival

May 15, 2018
This past weekend '63 Boycott, a film by Rachel Dickson, Tracye A. Matthews and Gordon Quinn, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Nashville Film Festival. The win makes the film eligible for submission to the 2019 Academy (continued …)

Minding the Gap wins at CAAMFest; DOXA

May 14, 2018
Rounding out the current tally of award recognitions for Minding the Gap to 15 since its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, this past week Minding the Gap earned the Documentary Award at CAAMFest as well as the Nigel Moore Award for (continued …)

NEA awards Kartemquin 2018 Art Works grant

May 8, 2018
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018. Included in this announcement is a recommended Art Works grant of $45,000 to (continued …)

Doris Duke Foundation funds Loyalty: Stories

May 3, 2018
Kartemquin is thrilled to share that Loyalty: Stories is a recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts' Building Bridges 2017-18 Grant. A ten-part series of shorts directed and produced by David Washburn, Loyalty: Stories is a national (continued …)

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