News for May 2008

Stem Cells in Madison

May 2, 2008
Kartemquin staff members, and UW Madison alumni, Justine Nagan and Liz Kaar will be heading to Madison tomorrow for the 10th annual Wisconsin Film Festival. Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita is screening Sunday morning at the fest at 11: (continued …)

Kartemquin at Full Frame this weekend!

May 2, 2008
There's a flurry of Kartemquin activity at this year's Full Frame Film Festival in North Carolina starting tomorrow morning! Kartemquin's award-winning 2004 series The New Americans is screening in segments beginning tomorrow morning at 10:45. Then (continued …)

Vietnam Long Time Coming to screen in Chicago

May 2, 2008
Join us on Saturday April 26th at 5:45pm for a free screening of Kartemquin's Emmy Award-winning film, Vietnam Long Time Coming, at the Hyde Park Art Center, preceded by an introduction from the filmmakers. The screening is part of "Creative Move: (continued …)

Kartemquin to be awarded "Commitment to Excellence" in television production

May 2, 2008
Kartemquin is excited to announce that Cinema/Chicago, the parent organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, is awarding Kartemquin Films with its "Commitment to Excellence Award" for lifetime acheivement in television production at (continued …)

Golub: Late Works screening in Virginia

May 2, 2008
Kartemquin's Golub: Late Works are the Catastrophes is screening at 7:00pm on Tuesday, April 15th at Virginia Tech University. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with Gordon Quinn and Virginia Tech professors from the Departments of Art (continued …)

Terra Incognita heads to Virginia

May 2, 2008
Kartemquin's Maria Finitzo will be participating in an event surrounding her recent film, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, at Virginia Tech in April. Finitzo will be visiting a class, participating on a panel, and answering questions (continued …)

Milking the Rhino awarded by Social Entrepreneurship Fund

May 2, 2008
We are pleased to announce that Milking the Rhino, the forthcoming documentary from Producer/Director David E. Simpson from a concept by Co-Producer Jeannie Magill, is the recipient of a $150,000 grant from the PBS Foundation Social Entrepreneurship (continued …)

Kartemquin on you tube

May 2, 2008
You can now watch clips from several Kartemquin Films on youtube. More to come! (continued …)

Fair Use in the press

May 2, 2008
Kartemquin's Justine Nagan and JJ Hanley are featured in an article in this month's Chicago Bar Association magazine in an article titled: "Documentary Filmmaking, Portraying Reality Under the Fair Use Doctrine." While an anecdote about fair use and (continued …)

Kartemquin in Doc-u-mania

May 2, 2008
Visit Columbia College this weekend and next for IFP Chicago's Doc-u-mania! The annual producer's series, this year focusing on production trends in non-fiction filmmaking, is featuring Kartemquin staff on two panels. First, Joanna Rudnick will talk (continued …)

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