In a new blog at the Kartemquin Archives Project, lead archivist Carolyn Faber shares the story of an unusual discovery: an Auricon Sound-On-Film Recording Amplifier. The vintage optical sound equipment, found in a box by fellow KTQ archivist Lyra H… - 59 days ago, 26 Mar 13, 3:08pm -
Kartemquin's Gordon Quinn and Jim Morrissette will take part in a Google Hangout this Wednesday, March 27th at 3PM ET (12PM PT): Interacting with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: A Live NAMAC + Daily Dot Google Hangout.read more - 60 days ago, 25 Mar 13, 8:55pm -
The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation has awarded Kartemquin a grant of $18,000 to continue our project to identify, assess, catalog and preserve every production element in our 47-year archive. The grant comes through the Donnelley Foundation… - 63 days ago, 22 Mar 13, 7:21pm -
The MacArthur Foundation has awarded grants to nine new documentaries, including two being made at Kartemquin: Judith Helfand's Cooked and new project Raising Bertie, by Margaret Byrne.Awarded $120,000 for production, Raising Bertie is about an alte… - 63 days ago, 22 Mar 13, 2:15pm -
Kartemquin's Executive Director Justine Nagan was featured on the print front page of the business section of today's Chicago Tribune due to her key role in bringing Good Pitch to Chicago later this year. The documentary pitching event, which brings… - 64 days ago, 21 Mar 13, 6:57pm -
The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, featured in our film Typeface, has finally found a new home! Their historic, unmatched collection of over 1 million pieces of wood type will now be located at 1816 10th Street, still in the rural town of Two… - 66 days ago, 19 Mar 13, 9:28pm -
Last night, the '63 Boycott team was invited to attend and show footage of the film at a workshop performance of Shades of Mississippi, a "mass meeting performance" based on the 1963 campaign to desegregate Chicago Public Schools, which culminated w… - 67 days ago, 18 Mar 13, 3:18pm -
Expanding its reach across multiple new platforms, cities, and countries, As Goes Janesville continues to spark discussions on corporate accountability and socio-economic responsibility. Coming up soon, director Brad Lichtenstein will be showing the… - 72 days ago, 13 Mar 13, 5:15pm -
As director Bill Siegel and his team rush to complete The Trials of Muhammad Ali ahead of their April 26th world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, the documentary is generating more buzz among the film press thanks to its inclusion in the 2013 T… - 73 days ago, 12 Mar 13, 10:10pm -
Xan Aranda, producer/director of Mormon Movie, is "humbled and honored, thrilled" to have received a $50,000 grant from the Sage Foundation in support of what she describes as a "gathering year" of production for the film."We approached the Sage Fou… - 78 days ago, 8 Mar 13, 2:28am -
