Academy Award®-nominated Abacus: Small Enough to Jail was announced today as the recipient of the 2018 American Bar Association Award for Media and the Arts in the television category! The Silver Gavel Awards are intended to "recognize outstanding work that fosters the American public's understanding of law and the legal system." Read the ABA's official press release here. Continued

Keep Talking, the award-winning directorial debut from Karen Lynn Weinberg, travels back to Alaska for three screenings this May and June! Saturday, May 26 at 6:00PM - Kodiak Crabfest Wednesday, June 6 at 7:00PM - Sealaska Heritage Celebration Friday, June 8 at 9:00PM - Sealaska Heritage Celebration Saturday, June 9 at 5:45PM - Sealaska Heritage Celebration Continued

'63 Boycott, a film by Rachel Dickson, Tracye A. Matthews, and Gordon Quinn, won the Best Short Documentary Award at the Adrian International Film Festival this past weekend! Continued

Making the most up-to-date tally of Minding the Gap's festival award recognitions a staggering 22 in total, just this past weekend the film earned the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Grand Prix, the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Lower Silesia Grand Prix, and the Nashville Film Festival Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize. Continued

Kartemquin is thrilled to share that long-time Kartemquin associate Steve James has been announced as the 2018 AFI DOCS Charles Guggenheim Symposium honoree. Read the official release from AFI DOCS here. James will be honored on June 14 at 6:30PM at the National Museum of American History's theater, where episode one of the James' upcoming docuseries America to Me will screen. The evening will also include an in-depth conversation with James along with clips from his acclaimed works. Purchase tickets here. Continued

Kartemquin is excited to share that our 1974 film Now We Live on Clifton is now featured in the Art Institute of Chicago's new exhibition, 'Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950-1980.' The exhibit runs through October 28. Featured on the accompanying audio tour are Now We Live on Clifton filmmakers and original Kartemquin collective members Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Artistic Director and co-founder of Kartemquin Films, and Peter Kuttner. Continued

This past weekend '63 Boycott, a film by Rachel Dickson, Tracye A. Matthews and Gordon Quinn, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Nashville Film Festival. The win makes the film eligible for submission to the 2019 Academy Awards. Previously, the film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Short at the 2018 Pan African Film + Arts Festival (the film's LA premiere), and made its New York premiere at the Museum of Modern Art's 2018 Documentary Fortnight. The film next screens at the Adrian International Film Festival on Saturday, May 19th, and the African Diaspora Cinema Festival in Florence, Italy, running July 5-8. Continued

Rounding out the current tally of award recognitions for Minding the Gap to 15 since its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, this past week Minding the Gap earned the Documentary Award at CAAMFest as well as the Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming at the 2018 DOXA Documentary Film Festival! Continued

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018. Included in this announcement is a recommended Art Works grant of $45,000 to Kartemquin Films towards our work deepening our focus on cultivating and serving diverse, Midwestern filmmakers who will enrich and enliven our industry. The grant will support the Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) fellowship, KTQ Labs program, and Kartemquin's continued active filmmaker support for 19 films currently in production or active distribution. (Pictured: Kartemquin Artistic Director and co-founder Gordon Quinn provides feedback during a KTQ Lab for the film A Destruction, directed by DVID graduate Urooj Yazdani Continued

Kartemquin is thrilled to share that Loyalty: Stories is a recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts' Building Bridges 2017-18 Grant. A ten-part series of shorts directed and produced by David Washburn, Loyalty: Stories is a national storytelling project about American Muslim veterans that explores themes of citizenship, identity and faith in the post-9/11 era. The grant will provide $65,000 towards post-production and distribution of the series, which will premiere in time for Veterans Day 2018. Continued