News for April 2014

The Trials of Muhammad Ali wins FOCAL International Award

April 30, 2014
The Trials of Muhammad Ali has won for Best Use of Sports Footage at the FOCAL International Awards. The FOCAL (Federation of Commercial Audio Visual Libraries) International awards are "the leading and most complete set of awards for the archive (continued …)

The Homestretch world premieres at Hot Docs

April 26, 2014
"One of my most anticipated films at this year’s Hot Docs is The Homestretch, directed by Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly." - Christopher Campbell, Nonfics.com. After years of work, this is the moment: world premiere! The team behind The Homestretch (continued …)

Life Itself sparks laughter, love and tears at Ebertfest

April 24, 2014
Life Itself screened to 1,600 people last night at Champaign's Virginia Theatre as the opening film of the 16th edition of Ebertfest. The response was extraordinary, and we have archived it below. [View the story "Life Itself at Ebertfest! " on (continued …)

New on DVD: The Trials of Muhammad Ali

April 22, 2014
Bill Siegel's award-winning film The Trials of Muhammad Ali is now available on DVD. Purchase it here from the Kartemquin store to directly support our work. The release follows from the film's widely acclaimed PBS broadcast - the highest rated (continued …)

Nantucket Film Festival to honor Steve James

April 22, 2014
Nantucket Film Festival will honor Steve James with the Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award at the festival's 19th edition, taking place June 25-30, 2014. Steve will attend the festival to present a Spotlight screening of his new (continued …)

Life Itself to screen at Cannes Film Festival, with new Cannes footage

April 22, 2014
The 2014 Cannes Film Festival will host the European premiere of Life Itself, our new documentary about film critic Roger Ebert. Life Itself director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters) said to RogerEbert.com: "The film's selection is a (continued …)

Columbia College to give Gordon Quinn Honorary Degree

April 21, 2014
Kartemquin's co-founder and artistic director Gordon Quinn will receive an Honorary Degree from Columbia College Chicago this May. Gordon is one of five recipients chosen to represent the fields of film, theater, visual art, architecture and (continued …)

Al Jazeera America Announces Production of Documentary Series with Kartemquin Films on Realities of Low-Income Living

April 17, 2014
Kartemquin is proud to announce a collaboration with Al Jazeera America on Hard Earned, a six-part documentary series scheduled to air in early 2015. Production has already begun on the series, which will explore the lives of five American families (continued …)
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Tickets now on sale for the Kartemquin Spring Showcase

April 16, 2014
The 3rd annual Kartemquin Spring Showcase invites you to enjoy exclusive previews of never-before-seen footage from four of our upcoming documentaries, and give your feedback directly to the filmmakers in the theater and in a post-screening (continued …)

Your reactions to The Trials of Muhammad Ali on PBS

April 14, 2014
We've collected the best reactions to the unprecedented simultaneous PBS and interactive online broadcast of The Trials of Muhammad Ali. The TV broadcast and online chat achieved the highest ratings of any Independent Lens program in the current (continued …)

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