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For more than 50 years, Kartemquin Films has been making documentaries that examine and critique society through the stories of real people.

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02/12/2025

Tune in to the today to hear director Eric Seals and his dad Donnie Seals Sr. talk about Bike Vessel! Find your local listings on kellyclarkson.com. Hearty congrats team!

Bike Vessel follows director Eric Seals and his dad Donnie Seals Sr as they cycle 350 miles from St. Louis to Chicago. After surviving three open-heart surgeries, Donnie found a second chance at life through cycling. It’s a story about resilience, health, and the power of movement to change lives. Read more on kartemquin.org

02/07/2025

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who joined us last night! It was so joyful to be in community with old friends and new.

Here’s to the next 50!

If you couldn’t make it last night please feel free to come say hello anytime. We have great coffee ☕️

02/06/2025

That warm glow is our community coming to say hello to our new home 🥹

02/01/2025

From the socialist feminists of the 1970s fighting to keep the Chicago Maternity Center open to the Black millennial organizers taking on a city complicit in state violence, Kartemquin Films has always captured grassroots activism at pivotal moments in history.

This Film Friday we recognize the power of documentary film as a tool for resistance, accountability, and change.

Keep making. Keep watching. Keep fighting. 🎥

01/27/2025

As documentary filmmakers we know that truth is often more extraordinary than fiction. Last week, in a remarkable turn of events, Leonard Peltier—the Native American activist who spent nearly five decades in prison—was granted clemency.

And TODAY the documentary film, Free Leonard Peltier makes its WORLD PREMIERE at Sundance! 🎥

Co-directed by Jesse Short Bull and David France and produced by David, Jhane Myers , Paul McGuire, and Bird Runningwater, this powerful documentary explores the 50-year story of activism surrounding Peltier’s contentious conviction, the FBI actions that led to it, and now his release.

We’re especially proud and privileged that Jhane is a mentor for the 2024/25 Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator.

FROM THE FILM TEAM: “As we prepare for the premiere of FREE LEONARD PELTIER...on January 27 at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, we are excited to shift our goal from advocating for Leonard’s release to celebrating his liberation from a prison cell. It is a profound honor to rewrite the ending of this story and we look forward to sharing our film with the world in the coming year.”

The film will have its world premiere on Jan 27th, with more screenings over the coming days. Screening times and tickets at sundance.org

01/23/2025

Join our friends and on Feb 7th for Hard Done By, a one night only screening of contemporary trans short films from Ireland. The event is co-presented by and . James Hudson (), a leading voice in Irish trans cinema, will host a post screening Q&A.

ABOUT: This selection of short films from the programmes of two Dublin-based film festivals, the GAZE LGBTQIA International Film Festival and the Trans Image/Trans Experience Film Festival, showcases the wild array of pain and beauty captured by trans filmmakers in Ireland today.

Tix and info at facets.org!

01/20/2025

Kartemquin offices will be closed today - Monday Jan 20th - in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day.

01/17/2025

We’re keeping things international for this week’s Film Friday with Justine Nagan’s Typeface (2009). This beautiful film will be screened in Istanbul on Jan 30th as part of Salt’s Paste-up, Print! program.

THE FILM: The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique.

THE PROGRAM: Organized as part of the exhibition Designer’s Note, the screening program Point, Paste-up, Print! explores the significant changes in design since the 1980s. From manual work within conventional design practices to the advent of computerized technology, the program offers a close look at a transformative period that has shaped the evolving role of design in bookmaking. Featuring eight documentary films, the selection brings together diverse practices from North and South America, Europe, and the Far East.

Photos: Justin Nagan with , Justine Nagan and Gordon Quinn

01/14/2025

Friends, we’re honored to introduce this year’s Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator mentors: Jhane Myers and Julian Brave NoiseCat.

Jhane Myers is a two-time Emmy-winning filmmaker and 2023 Producers Guild of America nominee, known for her unwavering dedication to projects that honor and preserve Native legacies. Jhane is a member of the Comanche and Blackfeet Nations.

Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker and member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and descendant of the Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie. Julian’s multi award winning debut film Sugarcane - directed alongside - has been shortlisted for an Academy Award.

We feel incredibly fortunate to be collaborating with these two visionary filmmakers and look forward to seeing the impact their guidance will have on the 2024/25 Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator filmmaking teams.

Read more about Jhane, Julian and the two projects selected for the accelerator on our website kartemquin.org

01/14/2025

Friends, we’re honored to introduce this year’s /Kartemquin Accelerator mentors: Jhane Myers and Julian Brave NoiseCat.

Jhane Myers is a two-time Emmy-winning filmmaker and 2023 Producers Guild of America nominee, known for her unwavering dedication to projects that honor and preserve Native legacies. Jhane is a member of the Comanche and Blackfeet Nations.

Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker and member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and descendant of the Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie. Julian’s multi award winning debut film Sugarcane - directed alongside Emily Kassie - has been shortlisted for an Academy Award.

We feel incredibly fortunate to be collaborating with these two visionary filmmakers and look forward to seeing the impact their guidance will have on the 2024/25 Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator filmmaking teams.

Read more about Jhane, Julian and the two projects selected for the accelerator on our website kartemquin.org

01/13/2025

Sharing for our friends at Rhythm, Rhyme and Resilience - Recorded at in Chicago, Rhythm Rhyme and Resilience, is a virtual gathering of music, entertainment, and encouragement that creates a multi-generational space for strength and connection.

On Wednesday January 15 at 6:00 PM CST, Rhythm, Rhyme, & Resilience will stream nationwide so that friends, families, churches, and other institutions can host free viewing parties.

An in-person screening of the approx 85-minute program will also take place on
Wednesday, January 15 at 5:30 pm at the Carter G. Woodson Library, 9525 S. Halsted, Chicago 60628

English subtitles will be available for this screening.

Details at rhythmrhymeresiliemce.com

01/09/2025

Welcome .sanctuary and , our very first visitors! 🥹

01/07/2025

Happy New Year folks! If you haven’t left the house yet this year, here’s your sign - join us for a screening of the magnificent QUEENDOM followed by a conversation, hosted by Gordon Quinn, with protagonist Jenna Marvin, director Agniia Galdanova and producer Igor Myakotin.

Shortlisted for an Academy Award, the film follows Marvin, a q***r artist who, in defiance of Russia’s anti-LGTBQ laws, stages radical public performances that become a new form of art and activism.

📆 7pm, Tuesday, Jan 7th
📍 Kinowerks, 5645 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago 60660
RSVP - [email protected]

12/31/2024

2024 was a pretty big year for KTQ!

🎉 2 new staff members joined the KTQ team.

🎥 We welcomed 13 new filmmakers with 9 new films.

🎥 We provided countless hours of production support for the 17 incredible KTQ films currently in production.

💬 We launched our Vital Conversations series with .

🏀 Hoop Dreams turned 30 this year, and we celebrated the legacy of one of ‘the greatest documentaries ever made’.

🌍 KTQ films continued to screen worldwide, from London’s BFI to local Chicago schools and universities.

🏠 We said goodbye to our home of 50+ years and moved into our beautiful new home at Kimball Arts Center (all welcome to the housewarming on Feb 6th!).

A heartfelt THANK YOU to every one of you who supported us this year. We can’t wait to share all the wonderful things that lie in store for 2025!

12/20/2024

It’s the penultimate Film Friday of 2024 and it’s a special one - this week’s KTQ slate pick is the beautiful MY OMAHA, directed by Nick Beaulieu, that will have its WORLD PREMIERE at Slamdance 2025!

We’re so proud of Nick and producers Doug Block and Judith Mizrachy. This year the festival received 10,000 submissions and My Omaha is one of only 8 documentary features chosen for its 2025 lineup. Congrats to all the filmmakers screening at the festival, see you soon LA!

.beaulieu # MyOmaha

12/19/2024

HUGE congratulations to Director Kimberly Reed and the team for making the Oscars shortlist for Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr! 🎉

We’re privileged to be working with Kimberly on her latest feature, Paradise Valley. Find out more about that project on our website!

Watch the incredible Seat 31 via the New Yorker, link in comments.

12/18/2024

We are THRILLED to introduce the five 2024/25 Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) fellows and their short film projects!

amaranta - WE ARE SEEDS

Mariam Atallah - BREAKING SALT

Obed Lamy - UNTITLED HAITIAN MIGRANTS IN SPRINGFIELD

Myron Miller - DOORS OFF

Cherrelle Swain - ANCESTRAL HEALING

We can’t wait to support these brilliant filmmakers and their extraordinary projects. Keep an eye out for DVID updates and news throughout next year.

Founded by Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films and Margaret Caples of Community Film Workshop of Chicago DVID is a twelve month cohort based program that supports non-fiction filmmakers telling stories that are intimate, grounded in community, and provoke audiences to question the world around them.

12/17/2024

We’re inching towards our fundraising goal! A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us so far, you donated, you shared our posts and we’re so grateful!

Did you that we can’t do what we do without you? Please consider supporting us this week and get us to our $20k goal. Every single dollar counts but liking and sharing is also supporting 🧡

Thanks to a generous donor every dollar you donate will be matched up to $10,000. Support KTQ today to double your impact! https://tinyurl.com/KTQChallenge

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🎥 Laura Checkoway’s Oscar nominated short, Edith and Eddie is the KTQ catalog pick for this week’s Film Friday, aka Valentine’s Day 🧡 When Edith and Eddie married at ages 96 and 95 they became America’s oldest interracial newlyweds. However, the couple’s love story stands in stark contrast to the nightmarish reality of a family feud and a battle over legal guardianship. Go to kartemquin.org for ways to watch. #KartemuinFilms #FilmFriday #healthcare #guardianship #elderrights #blackhistorymonth

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