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The Dilemma of Desire and Finding Yingying to World Premiere at 2020 SXSW Film Festival

January 15, 2020
Kartemquin is pleased to announce the World Premieres of two feature documentaries at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival, to be held in Austin, Texas this March. SXSW announced their full line-up today with plans to announce exact screening times at a (continued …)
2020 Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) Fellows

Announcing the 2020 Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) Fellows

January 8, 2020
Kartemquin Films and the Community Film Workshop of Chicago today announced the eight new 2020 Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) fellows. Now in its 8th year, DVID is a professional mentorship program for Midwestern documentary filmmakers of color (continued …)

City So Real to world premiere at 2020 Sundance Film Festival

December 9, 2019
City So Real, the newest project by two-time Academy Award®-nominated director Steve James, will make its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, running January 23-February 2.The four-hour miniseries is an impressionistic, (continued …)

Story & Pictures By exceeds Kickstarter goal

November 16, 2019
Story & Pictures By, the newest film from Emmy-nominated director Joanna Rudnick (In the Family, On Beauty). Exceeded their Kickstarter goal this past Friday – raising $40,000, raising $43,651 in  (continued …)

Minding the Gap wins 2019 Grierson Award

November 15, 2019
Minding the Gap, the Academy Award-nominated film directed, produced, and edited by Bing Liu and produced by Diane Quon, today was awarded the 2019 Grierson Award for Best Cinema Documentary at the Grierson Awards ceremony on Thursday, November (continued …)

Keep Talking re-broadcasts on PBS November 18 in honor of Native American Heritage Month; now streaming

November 13, 2019
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, PBS will re-broadcast Karen Weinberg’s award-winning film Keep Talking.Check your local listings to find out when the film will screen on your local PBS station, or stream  (continued …)

All The Queen's Horses makes broadcast premiere November 7 on WTTW and IL Public Media

November 1, 2019
Award-winning All The Queen's Horses, directed and produced by Kelly Richmond Pope, will have its broadcast premiere on WTTW Chicago PBS and WILL-TV on November 7th at 8pm.The film tells the story of Rita Crundwell, the perpetrator of (continued …)

In Conversation: Steve James on City So Real

October 24, 2019
Two-time Academy Award-nominated director Steve James has dedicated much of his career to following Chicagoans reckoning with the implications of social forces on their daily lives. His humanist filmmaking has focused on the resolute individuals (continued …)

The Dilemma of Desire panel selected for SXSW 2020

October 23, 2019
Key participants and filmmakers behind The Dilemma of Desire, directed by Maria Finitzo and produced by Diane Quon and Cynthia Kane, will convene onstage at South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference in March 2020.Director Maria Finitzo (continued …)

Hoop Dreams Receives 25th Anniversary UK Re-release

October 20, 2019
In honor of its 25th Anniversary, Hoop Dreams will be re-released in the UK through distributor Violet Pictures on October 25th, 2019. Additionally, Hoop Dreams will tour cinemas throughout the UK this year, with filmmakers Steve (continued …)

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