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Kartemquin in class

May 2, 2008
Kartemquin's Director of Communications Justine Nagan visited a documentary class at Columbia College yesterday and spoke with students about her experiences at Kartemquin and in the field of documentary. She gave feedback to the class about (continued …)

Kartemquin's Judy Hoffman at Tribeca

May 2, 2008
Long-time Kartemquin associate Judy Hoffman will be at the Tribeca Film Festival, to support Albert Maysles' latest film, "The Gates," for which she was one of the Cinematographers. The documentary was selected for the closing film of this year's (continued …)

Kartemquin mentors emerging doc talent

May 2, 2008
This weekend, Kartemquin's Gordon Quinn and Joanna Rudnick participated as mentors at the "Doing your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices" workshop sponsored by NALIP, LPB, the NEA, Columbia College and the IFP/Chicago. Gordon and Joanna met (continued …)

Kartemquin labor classic screens May 5th

May 2, 2008
Join us for a screening of Kartemquin's labor documentary, UE/Wells this Saturday night at 7:00pm at the New World Resource Center in Chicago. Following the film, there will be a discussion with the filmmakers and several union organizers from the (continued …)

Listen to Gordon's MIT panel on fair use

May 2, 2008
Listen to a podcast of the Cultural Commons and Fair Use panel that Kartemquin's President Gordon Quinn, and Board Member Pat Aufderheide participated in at last week's international conference at MIT. (continued …)

Typeface awarded first big grant from the IHC

May 2, 2008
Typeface, a new Kartemquin documentary by Justine Nagan, received a $10,000 grant from the Illinois Humanities Council for continued production on the film. (continued …)

Terra Incognita in the news

May 2, 2008
Kartemquin's latest doc, Terra Incognita, is currently featured in a story on Northwestern University's website. Read it. The film premieres Thursday night at Thorne Auditorium in Chicago. (continued …)

Join us at Steppenwolf for a documentary discussion

May 2, 2008
Kartemquin is excited to invite you to a discussion with Howard Reich and John Callaway about Kartemquin's documentary in progress, Prisoner of Her Past, Sunday, May 20th at 5:30pm in Steppenwolf's Upstairs Theatre. The event will include footage (continued …)

More In the Family News

May 2, 2008
Joanna Rudnick was profiled on the local NBC 10 o'clock news on Monday, February 13th. The story focused on Joanna's personal story and the production of In the Family. (continued …)

From Blum to The Nation

May 2, 2008
A letter to the Editor on "Torture in Art" from Kartemquin's Jerry Blumenthal to "The Nation" was published in the February 12th edition of the magazine. Click here to read the letter. (continued …)

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