News for May 2015

Join the filmmakers and subjects at the Hard Earned Series Finale Celebration

May 22, 2015
Please join Kartemquin Films for a very special season finale screening of Hard Earned on at 2pm on Sunday, May 31 at the Chicago Cultural Center. RSVP to attend. We celebrate the amazing team work and collaboration of producing this six-part series (continued …)

Music Box to host Saving Mes Aynak Chicago premiere

May 21, 2015
On Tuesday, June 2 at 7:30pm, the historic Music Box Theatre hosts the Chicago premiere of Saving Mes Aynak. The screening is a special presentation kicking off the Music Box's Docs at the Box summer documentary series, programmed by Anthony Kaufman (continued …)

Grab early bird tickets to our Summer Soirée!

May 19, 2015
The Host Committee, Board of Directors, Staff and Filmmakers of Kartemquin Films invite you to join us on June 26th in Chicago for our 2015 Summer Soirée. Our signature celebration event for the year, the Summer Soirée supports all our filmmaking, (continued …)
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Grassroots Chicago to screen for community organizers

May 19, 2015
In a rare public screening, Grassroots Chicago will screen as the third event of the Organizing for Action (OFA) Community Organizing Institute's Organizing Works series, a look at the successes and challenges of community organizing through the (continued …)

RSVP for "Teaching," episode six of The School Project

May 14, 2015
Join us for The School Project’s sixth and final episode, which features the world premiere of Teaching, a short documentary directed by Gordon Quinn and Rachel Dickson that explores a model for math education that has quietly been getting results (continued …)

"Truth and Fact and Dignity": Episode 2 of Hard Earned

May 12, 2015
Hard Earned, a six-part documentary series for Al Jazeera America, puts aside economic debates and follows five families around the country to find out what it takes to get by on eight, ten or even 15 dollars an hour. The series airs on Sunday (continued …)

Raising Bertie selected for IFP Filmmaker Labs

May 11, 2015
We're delighted to announce that The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) has selected Raising Bertie for their Independent Filmmaker Labs, IFP’s annual yearlong fellowship for first-time feature directors. Raising Bertie director Margaret Byrne, (continued …)

Hard Earned spurs conversation on low-wage workers

May 9, 2015
Last Sunday saw the world television premiere of Hard Earned, Kartemquin's new six-part series on the lives of five American families getting by on low incomes. Check out our twitter recap of Hard Earned's first episode. Tune in this Sunday night at (continued …)

Raising Bertie Feels the Love at Good Pitch

May 8, 2015
#TeamBertie is wrapping up a crazy, emotional, wonderful week after participating in this year's Good Pitch Chicago. The event, which was held this part Tuesday in Pilsen's historic Thalia Hall, raised over $350,000 for the six projects that (continued …)

NEA awards grants to '63 Boycott and Media Burn's Kartemquin Digitization Project

May 8, 2015
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded two grants for Kartemquin projects in its recent round of 2015 funding. '63 Boycott received $35,000 towards completion of the thirty minute film segment of this web-based documentary (continued …)

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