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Represent World Premieres at CIFF44 Streams

April 20, 2020
Kartemquin is exciting to announce that Represent is enjoying its world premiere as part of CIFF44 Streams, April 15th - 28th.In her debut feature, Chicago-based documentary filmmaker Hillary Bachelder creates a tender and often unexpected portrait (continued …)

COOKED: Survival By Zip Code #StayHomeWatchTogether Virtual Screening

April 20, 2020
In honor or Earth Week, #StayHomeWatchTogether, a global initiative to bring groundbreaking, documentaries to online audiences this April, will host a virtual screening of COOKED: Survival By Zip Code, followed by a panel discussion and (continued …)

Language of Opportunity selected for 2020 Virtual TFI Network

April 20, 2020
Language of Opportunity, a film in collaboration with Kartemquin, has been selected to participate in the 2020 Tribeca Film Institute Virtual TFI Network. Director/Producer Anuradha Rana is the program coordinator for the Diverse (continued …)

WTTW to Broadcast Prisoner of Her Past, All the Queen's Horses in April

April 13, 2020
WTTW-Ch.11 presents the 10th annual broadcast of Prisoner of Her Past on April 19, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Directed by Gordon Quinn, Prisoner of Her Past tells the haunting story of a secret childhood (continued …)

Timely, Limited Streaming of COOKED on PBS

April 9, 2020
A provocative investigation into the disasters we're willing to see and prepare for, and the ones we're not, COOKED: Survival By Zip Code - which looks at the racial disparities in life expectancy and public health support during the (continued …)

Eating Up Easter to Stream in "Virtual Cinemas" via Music Box StreamLocal

April 8, 2020
Kartemquin and Chicago-based distributor Music Box Films are bringing Eating Up Easter to "virtual cinemas" nationwide beginning Earth Day, April 22. Ticket purchases support your local art house theater while giving you the chance to (continued …)

Represent Director Hillary Bachelder's Op-Ed Featured on IndieWire

March 25, 2020
After wrapping her debut feature Represent, then seeing its world premiere at Cleveland International Film Festival cancelled due to the coronavirus, director and KTQ internship alum Hillary Bachelder began reflecting on (continued …)

Celebrating SXSW: Finding Yingying wins prize; The Dilemma of Desire thrills

March 24, 2020
Jiayan "Jenny" Shi's debut feature documentary, Finding Yingying was awarded the SXSW 2020 Documentary Feature Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Voice. Finding Yingying, a vérité documentary, tells the story of the (continued …)

Update on Gordon Quinn’s health

March 20, 2020
Below is an edited version of a statement sent by our Executive Director Jolene Pinder to Kartemquin filmmakers and alumni yesterday, March 19th. We kindly ask that you adhere to its guidelines for communication and privacy:Dear KTQ Community— (continued …)

Kartemquin's Response to COVID-19

March 13, 2020
Dear Kartemquin Community,We wanted to reach out during this challenging, uncertain moment and share how Kartemquin is responding to COVID-19 — the current impact on our work and the anticipated after effects. Earlier this week, we began (continued …)

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