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KTQ Artistic Director, Gordon Quinn, recounts in vivid detail his six-week recovery from COVID for Good Morning America
September 15, 2020
Earlier this year, our Artistic Director and co-founder Gordon Quinn was hospitalized with COVID-19. He has shared his story and exclusive footage of his experience with Good Morning America. His determination to tell important stories may have
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Announcing A Leadership Transition
September 2, 2020
With gratitude for her leadership and vision during a challenging period, Kartemquin Films announces today that Executive Director Jolene Pinder is leaving the organization, effective October 1. A transition team of Kartemquin Board and staff
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Steve James in conversation with Ashley O'Shay in first KTQ Community Conversation
August 12, 2020
Since 1966, Kartemquin has prided itself on cultivating "a collaborative community that empowers documentary makers who create stories that foster a more engaged and just society." In that time, we have championed the making of
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We Are Witnesses: Chicago nominated for Emmy Award
August 11, 2020
We Are Witnesses: Chicago has been nominated for "Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary" at the 41st Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards.Produced and directed by Maggie Bowman and Stacy Robinson, We Are
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National Geographic Acquires Critically Acclaimed Sundance Series CITY SO REAL with Fall Debut Planned
August 3, 2020
From Participant, Kartemquin Films and Oscar-Nominated Steve James, Documentary Series Delves Into the Universal and Timely Story of Structural Inequality Through the Lens of Chicago and Its Heated 2019 Mayoral ElectionNewly Created Fifth
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Unapologetic to World Premiere on Opening Night at Blackstar Film Festival
July 16, 2020
UNAPOLOGETIC, the feature debut of Ashley O’Shay and producer Morgan Elise Johnson is set to premiere on opening night at the BlackStar Film Festival on August 20th at 7:30 ET/6:30 CT. Both Ashley, a 2015 KTQ Internship and 2016
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Music Box Films Acquires Hillary Bachelder Debut Feature REPRESENT
July 16, 2020
Kartemquin Films is proud to announce that Music Box Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the timely documentary feature REPRESENT, directed by Hillary Bachelder and co-produced by Kartemquin Films, ITVS, and Backbone Films. A
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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code to Re-Broadcast Nationally on 25th Anniversary of 1995 Chicago Heatwave
July 8, 2020
COOKED: Survival By Zip Code will be having an encore broadcast on Monday, July 13th, 2020 on PBS Independent Lens, the 25th anniversary of the most traumatic heatwave in U.S. history. Twenty-five years after the 1995 Chicago heat wave,
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City So Real, The Dilemma of Desire to Stream at AFI DOCS Film Festival Online
June 10, 2020
AFI DOCS is going virtual! AFI announced the full slate of films being presented online for the AFI DOCS Festival 2020, including two Kartemquin Films - Steve James' City So Real and Maria Finitzo's The Dilemma of Desire
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Kartemquin to Receive Two Arts Works Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
June 10, 2020
Kartemquin Films is delighted to receive two Arts Works grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to support initatives addressing sustainability of the documentary field in the Midwest and support for the artistic and professional development
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