News for January 2015

Watch Golub for free on POV in honor of Jerry Blumenthal

January 30, 2015
Last November, Kartemquin founding partner Jerry Blumenthal passed away. His brilliance as a person and a filmmaker inspired many fond tributes. The acclaimed PBS documentary series P.O.V. then approached us with an interest in honoring Jerry (continued …)

MoMA to screen Women's Voices: The Gender Gap Movie

January 30, 2015
On Tuesday February 4th at 4pm, New York's MoMA presents a screening of our classic short Women’s Voices: The Gender Gap Movie as part of their series Carte Blanche: Women’s Film Preservation Fund—Women Writing the Language of Cinema. Produced in (continued …)

Athena Film Festival to host In the Game sneak preview

January 29, 2015
We're excited to announce that two-time Peabody award-winning director Maria Finitzo's new film In the Game is almost complete, and will be hitting festivals in 2015. Ahead of its official world premiere later this year, Maria will be present as (continued …)

Myriad no longer pursuing patents cases at heart of Joanna Rudnick's In the Family

January 29, 2015
There was seemingly final, victorious news for the families featured in, and many fans of, our Emmy-nominated 2008 documentary In the Family this week, as Myriad Genetics announced it was ending its patent dispute on breast cancer risk testing. (continued …)

The Homestretch heads to Paris

January 28, 2015
The European Premiere of The Homestretch will be at The Paris Human Rights International Film Festival (FIFDH Paris) which runs from April 7th through the 21st. Screenings will be held at Luminor, Hôtel de Ville. The FIFDH Paris has, for the last (continued …)

Announcing the 2015 Diverse Voices in Docs fellows

January 24, 2015
We are delighted to welcome the 2015 Diverse Voices in Docs fellows to their first session today. The Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) Fellowship is a collaboration between Kartemquin Films and Community Film Workshop (CFW) of Chicago. It is a six- (continued …)

Life Itself airs again on CNN this Sunday

January 23, 2015
CNN Films presents an encore broadcast of Life Itself, our award-winning documentary on Roger Ebert, this Sunday, January 25th at 8pm ET. The repeat broadcast comes just over a week after a bittersweet, busy time for the film and Kartemquin, as the (continued …)

"Chicago Public Schools: Closed" premieres today

January 22, 2015
In a sold out live event premiere tonight at 6:30pm, The School Project, a collaboratively-made documentary web series about public education, presents its second episode: "Chicago Public Schools: Closed", followed by a debate about the effect of (continued …)

Homestretch gets funding as it continues screening nationwide

January 20, 2015
Kirsten Kelly and Anne de Mare's The Homestretch is challenging stereotypes of homelessness as it continues to tour the USA. The film, which follows the inspiring story of three homeless teenagers in Chicago, who fight to stay in school, graduate, (continued …)

High praise and packed houses for Almost There's Chicago premieres

January 12, 2015
In its triumphant Chicago premiere weekend, Almost There was greeted with two sold out houses at the Gene Siskel Film Center, and a bevy of fantastic reviews and media attention. The overwhelmingly joyous and positive response was extremely (continued …)

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