We are delighted to announce the arrival of Kartemquin's latest and most most adorable production!

 

Please join us in welcoming Mr. Rhett Sinclair Nagan Rowe, new baby son of our Executive Director Justine Nagan and her husband Matt Rowe.

 

Rhett was born at 3:30am on January 12th, 2012, weighing in at 7 lbs, 15 oz. Isn't he the cutest?

 

We wish Justine (also director of our film Typeface) the happiest of maternity leave time with her beautiful baby! If you would like to leave a comment of congratulations, please do so below.

Several Kartemquin documentaries will be part of a new "Films for $5ive" documentary screening series at the Madison Street Theatre in Oak Park, Illinois, starting next Friday, January 13th at 7pm with A Good Man. The film's Associate Producer Rachel Pikelny will attend the screening.

 

The nine-week “Films for $5ive” series will feature 4 screenings each weekend:  Friday nights at 7pm, Saturdays at 2pm and 7pm, and Sunday afternoons at 2pm.  Each weekend will feature 2 films, each of which will screen twice, with each weekend’s films focusing loosely on a global theme and offering different perspectives.  As often as schedules will allow, the directors, producers and others involved in the making of the films will be present to discuss their work following each event.

 

The series is co-programmed by Kartemquin and Steve Dixon of Ruthless Films, whose documentaries Tony and Janina's American Wedding, Welcome to Anatevka and Lipstick & Dynamite (all directed by Ruth Leitman) will screen in the series.

 

The Kartemquin documentaries screening in the series include Inquiring Nuns; Refrigerator Mothers; Typeface; and Golub: Late Works are the Catastrophes. Films by other Illinois-based documentary producers will also be included in the series, including KTQ Labs graduates Louder Than A Bomb and Maria Finitzo's double bill Life Lessons / My Mother's Idea.

 

The full press release is attached and the confirmed dates are below:

 

Performance
Fri Jan 13, 2012     7pm     A Good Man      2011, Bob Hercules and Gordon Quinn    86 min    
Sat Jan 14, 2012    2pm     A Good Man      2011, Bob Hercules and Gordon Quinn    86 min    
Sat Jan 14, 2012    7pm     Welcome To Anatevka    2001, Ruth Leitman, J. Jernigan    75 min   
Sun Jan 15, 2012   2pm     Welcome To Anatevka    2001, Ruth Leitman, J. Jernigan    75 min   
Happiness
Fri Jan 20, 2012     7pm    Inquiring Nuns       1968, Gordon Quinn    60 min    TBA
Sat Jan 21, 2012    2pm     Inquiring Nuns       1968, Gordon Quinn    60 min    TBA
Sat Jan 21, 2012   7pm      Graveyard (shorts) + Something Better Somewhere Else    2010/11, Ron Lazaretti    10 min shorts  + 76 min
Sun Jan 22, 2012   2pm     Graveyard (shorts) + Something Better Somewhere Else    2010/11, Ron Lazaretti    10 min shorts  + 76 min

The Arts
Fri Jan 27, 2012      7pm     Golub    2004, Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal    80 min
Sat Jan 28, 2012     2pm     Golub    2004, Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal    80 min   
Sat Jan 28, 2012     7pm    Typeface    2009, Justine Nagan    59 min   
Sun Jan 29, 2012    2pm     Typeface    2009, Justine Nagan    59 min  

Politics
Fri Feb 3, 2012       7pm     Tony & Janina's American Wedding    2010, Ruth Leitman    83 min
Sat Feb 4, 2012      2pm     Tony & Janina's American Wedding    2010, Ruth Leitman   83 min
Sat Feb 4, 2012      7pm     By the People: The Election of Barack Obama    2009, Alicia Sams, Amy Rice    116 min  
Sun Feb 5, 2012      2pm     By the People: The Election of Barack Obama    2009, Alicia Sams, Amy Rice    116 min  

The Come On
Fri Feb 10, 2012      7pm    Toots    2006, Kristi Jacobson    85 min    
Sat Feb 11, 2012     2pm    Toots    2006, Kristi Jacobson    85 min    
Sat Feb 11, 2012     7pm    Lipstick & Dynamite    2005, Ruth Leitman    83 min    
Sun Feb 12, 2012    2pm    Lipstick & Dynamite    2005, Ruth Leitman    83 min   
 

Women
Fri Feb 17, 2012        7pm   Refrigerator Mothers    2003, David Simpson    60 min  
Sat Feb 18, 2012      2pm    Refrigerator Mothers    2003, David Simpson    60 min   

Sat Feb 18, 2012      7pm    Life Lessons/My Mother's Idea    2011, Maria Finitzo    19min and 47min  
Sun Feb 19, 2012     2pm    Life Lessons/My Mother's Idea    2011, Maria Finitzo    19min and 47min  

 

Family
Fri Feb 24, 2012       7pm    Alma      1999, Ruth Leitman  94 min     
Sat Feb 25, 2012      2pm    Alma      1999, Ruth Leitman  94 min    
Sat Feb 25, 2012      7pm    Short films by Lisa Barcy          Various, Lisa Barcy          60 min     
Sun Feb 26, 2012     2pm    Short films by Lisa Barcy          Various, Lisa Barcy          60 min     

 

Growing Up
Fri Mar 2, 2012          7pm    Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football    2011, Rashid Ghazi                        92 min
Sat Mar 3, 2012         2pm    Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football    2011, Rashid Ghazi                        92 min
Sat Mar 3, 2012         7pm    Louder Than A Bomb                    2010, Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel       99 min
Sun Mar 4, 2012        2pm    Louder Than A Bomb                    2010, Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel       99 min

We are giving thanks to you for all the amazing support we've received in 2011, and offering 50% off purchases in the Kartemquin store! Use the coupon code KTQHOLIDAY11 from now until December 19th and grab a perfect holiday gift for the documentary lover in your life!

 

New items in the store include the DVD of A Good Man, our PBS American Masters documentary on choreographer Bill T. Jones' creation of a work about Abraham Lincoln, plus everything else we have on DVD, from Hoop Dreams to Home for Life, and Taylor Chain to Typeface!

 

And we have new merch, too! Check out new KTQ hoodies, fetching ladies tees, Beanie hats, and by popular demand, baby bibs and baby onesies for "future documentary lovers"!

As part of the continuing celebration of the 45th anniversary of Kartemquin Films, South Side Projections and the Southside Hub of Production are proud to present a screening of a free screening of the award-winning documentary Typeface on December 3rd, 7pm at the Southside Hub of Production, a new arts and cultural center in the heart of Hyde Park (5638 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago).

 

Following the film is a roundtable discussion of the history and future of letterpress. Respondents include Typeface director Justine Nagan, April Sheridan of Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts, Martha Chiplis of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Celene Aubrey of the Lillstreet Art Center, radical printer and activist Dan S. Wang, and other artists.
 
The screening and roundtable kick off SHOP’s month-long “Reproduce+Ability” exhibition, which emphasizes reproducible art and the techniques used to make it. In addition to the letterpress show curated by April Sheridan of Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts, there will be a series of events featuring artists working in reproducible mediums. Animator Vicky Yen, silkscreen printer Clare Fentress, mixtape artist DJ Curt Spins, knitter Lindsay Obermeyer, and woodworker John Preus are just a few of the artists who will conduct workshops, do readings, and/or perform their work.
 
For more information, contact Michael W. Phillips Jr. (southsideprojections@gmail.com) or Tim Horsburgh (tim@kartemquin.com).

In honor of Kartemquin's 45th Anniversary, the newly renovated Hill Center in Washington DC will host a Master Class that will feature Kartemquin's Artistic Director and Founder, Gordon Quinn, on November 7th from 2pm - 3:30pm.

 

Quinn is a pioneer in documentary filmmaking. His large body of work includes executive producer and director credits, most recently co-direcing A Good Man, a film about the iconic dancer Bill T. Jones. The seminar will cover a variety of topics, from documentary storytelling to media ethics and fair use, as well as how those aspects of filmmaking relate to powerful film-centered civic engagement campaigns. The cost is $15: register here.

 

Kartemquin's Executive Director, Justine Nagan, will then join Quinn for a free discussion from 7pm - 9pm that day titled "Celebrating 45 Years of Kartemquin: A Conversation with Gordon Quinn and Justine Nagan." They will discuss the inner workings of documentary production and its role in today's society. Join the discussion and register for the event now!

 

DC audiences should also keep open November 5th, when The Interrupters will be screening at the Center for Social Media at American University. Get tickets and information.

 

The screening is part of the Benevolent Media Festival. Following the screening, esteemed members of Free Minds will a special reading of poems relating to the issues in "The Interrupters" to kick off DC-focused dialogue about ways to decrease violence in communities. The vision of the Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop is for every young inmate to receive the necessary tools, inspiration and community support to pursue education and follow a positive new path in life. Members' experiences are a direct reflection of The Interrupters story--Washington, DC's own struggle to face the issue of violence and the hope of transformation.

As you may have heard, major retailer Target's new "Vintage Varsity" clothing line is inspired by Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, the subject of our film Typeface.

 

Typeface director Justine Nagan and Hamilton Museum Artistic Director Jim Moran were recently interviewed by Madison, Wisconsin's Capital Times about how the film inspired Target to delve further into the museum's collection of a million pieces of wood type for their own inspiration, and how the museum will now be on surer footing as a result. Read the article.

Thanks to all the legions of Typeface fans around the world, we are now sold out of Typeface limited edition DVDs! The limited edition DVD featured a letterpress poster designed by Bill Moran of Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. Designs by Bill and Jim Moran are now also gracing the bodies of type lovers across the USA thanks to the Target "Cool Never Fades" clothing line inspired by the museum. The creation of the line itself - like so many of the amazing posters, photos and videos you have sent us over the past 3 years - was itself inspired by a Target designer seeing one of the very first Typeface screenings in 2008 at the Walker Art Center. We are proud to have been a small part of the ongoing resurrection of the museum and of the letterpress and typography movements, simply because we love seeing the community reengage with and build around this traditional artform in the digital era. As the Speak Art & Design blog so aptly puts it: "It is so cool to see old woodblocks, some over a hundred years old, used for a contemporary fashion line. This is living typography, living history in the true spirit of the museum itself. Awesome." Typeface is still available in unlimited versions on DVD, iTunes and Amazon VOD. Justine Nagan's film also has its own line of rather fetching t-shirts and beautiful letterpress posters that you might want to grab a hold of while stocks last! Also, if you are in Indiana don't miss the chance to see the film at 9pm tonight on WFYI PBS. And if you're one of our fans from Australia, don't miss the Australian television premiere of the film at 3pm this Sunday on ABC1!

If you're a fan of letterpress, wood type, typography or fashion, you have probably already heard a lot of news about the fantastic new line of Target Style clothing inspired by Hamilton Wood type and Printing Museum. The "Cool Never Fades" line is already in stores and available online from July 17. Amid the excitement, a couple of difference sources have noted the pivotal role of our film Typeface in inspiring the collection's genesis. The design blog Unbeige explains: "The idea for a partnership was sparked when a Target designer caught a screening of Typeface, Justine Nagan‘s 2009 documentary about the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum. Members of the megaretailer’s design team later visited the institution to select antique woodblocks (Hamilton is home to 1.5 million pieces of wood type) ripe for Americana-infused apparel. They worked closely with museum staff to create more than 100 different hand-pressed prints before toying with scale, layering, and color." The Minneapolis Star-Tribune - the hometown newspaper of both Target and Typeface director Justine Nagan - also notes how "inspiration struck" for the Typeface designer at the 2008 Walker Art Center screening of the film. Those of you have been following the progress of the film and museum since 2008 will note that at that screening the film was not even fully finished! What a journey it has been to get here three years later! And it's far from over yet: Typeface screens tomorrow at the Ventura Film Festival, airs on Indianapolis PBS this Thursday night, and then has its Australian television premiere this Sunday at 3pm on ABC1! Get full upcoming events details.

We're very excited for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, featured in our film Typeface, and currently enjoying an unprecedented level of success. This week saw the launch of a video titled "Cool Never Fades," which introduces a new fall line of clothing inspired by the Hamilton museum that will be hitting Target stores from July 11! We can also share this hot-off-the-presses article in The Atlantic, where you can find a bit more about how this all came to be, and direct you to the brand spanking new Hamilton website, which looks superb. And finally, watch our own video interview from earlier this year with the Moran Brothers on how Typeface has made a positive impact on Hamilton. We're so delighted and so very, very proud of Hamilton! All of this excitement - and the release of yesterday's Typeface newsletter has seen a rush on our remaining Typeface limited edition DVDs. We wrote in the newsletter that there were 20 left - it's now only 12! Get one before they are gone forever - which it now happily looks like will never happen to Hamilton Wood Type Museum!

The Kartemquin documentaries A Good Man, Prisoner of Her Past and Typeface will all screen at the 2011 Ventura Film Festival in Ventura, California this July!

• Prisoner of Her Past screens at 2pm on July 11 at the Goodbar.
• A Good Man screens at 10am on July 13 at the Regency.
• Typeface screens at 2pm on July 13 at the Regency (with a Q+A with cinematographer Tom Bailey).

Get tickets and the full schedule from the Ventura Film Festival.

Whitney Matheson, writer of USA Today's Pop Candy blog, selected Typeface as its DVD release of the week! You can get the film all for yourself at our store, or help it reach a wider audience by throwing it in to your Netflix queue so it climbs up their rankings!

Typeface continues its plucky bid for wood-type-based world domination in the next few weeks with a number of new broadcasts added for the USA through PBS and Europe through the Sundance Channel. Wood Type and Letterpress fans in France and Belgium can also now watch the film via the Sundance Channel in those countries. The new PBS broadcasts are in Chicago (as part of the Kartemquin's 45th anniversary WTTW series), Indianapolis; Milwaukee; Salt Lake City; Oregon (multiple stations); and San Antonio. Check out full details of the newly announced listings at the film's events page. Also, don't forget that only 30 limited edition Typeface DVDs still remain in our store!

Typeface airs 10pm tonight on WTTW as part of the Chicago PBS station's ongoing celebration of 45 years of Kartemquin Films. The local emmy-nominated documentary about the convergence of modern design and traditional technique focuses on the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

Check out a brief video introduction to the film's broadcast from Typeface director (and Kartemquin executive director) Justine Nagan and editor/Kartemquin post-production director Liz Kaar.

And if you want to snap up one of the few remaining Typeface limited edition DVDs featuring a poster from Hamilton Wood Type, act fast - we only have 37 left to sell!

Separately, we're also excited to announce that the Australian television premiere of the film will take place on July 17th, 3pm on ABC1!

Back in March Library Journal gave Typeface perhaps one of its best reviews yet - and we only just found it! The highly respected publication for professional librarians gave the film a Star "recommended" rating, and Margaret Heilbrun's review is so nice we though we'd reproduce it in full:

"There’s some dispute over whether Two Rivers, WI, can rightly claim to be the birthplace of the ice cream sundae, but there’s no question that it is home to one of the largest collections of historical wood display type in the world. What was once the Hamilton Manufacturing Company became in 1999 the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum—one beloved by letterpress artisans/teachers and boutique graphic designers seeking a return to the authenticity of the old analog age of craftsmanship in display printing (think of 19th-century WANTED and circus posters). Only trouble: Two Rivers is miles from urban centers, tourist routes, or universities. Nonetheless, devotees make the trek.

In this lovely documentary, both elegiac and hopeful, understated yet moving, filmmaker Nagan unobtrusively presents the story of this museum, with a narration shifting among the voices of those involved, from the lone museum employee to the former Hamilton workers who return as volunteers to keep alive aspects of wood display-type creation (operating the pantograph machine; trimming type). Here also is the larger story of how the past can slip from our hands and of how, with attention and support, it can abide. Highly recommended for those already appreciating this part of Americana and those ready to be enchanted by it."

 

Typeface is available for educational purchase for libraries and other institutions through Cinema Guild, and for individuals through the Kartemquin Store.

WTTW has confirmed that Typeface, Milking the Rhino and In the Family will air on the Chicago PBS station this summer as part of its ongoing celebration of Kartemquin's 45th anniversary.

The air dates for the films will be:

Typeface - June 22, 10pm.

Milking the Rhino - July 19, 10pm.

In the Family - August 4, 9pm.

The films deal with the issues of the preservation of art in the digital age (Typeface), community-based conservation in Africa (Milking the Rhino), and the implications of knowing your are genetically predisposed to breast and ovarian cancer (In the Family). This trio of modern Kartemquin classics will be accompanied by new introductions by their respective directors Justine Nagan (with editor Liz Kaar), David E. Simpson and Joanna Rudnick.

WTTW has already aired Kartemquin's Inquiring Nuns, Prisoner of Her Past and Now We Live on Clifton as part of the 45th anniversary series, drawing great responses from Chicago viewers and critics who were previously unfamilar with the documentaries.

Forthcoming films will include Taylor Chain I & II (around Labor Day), and the world broadcast premieres of our newest films A Good Man (on November 11, 9pm) and The Interrupters (in 2012).

Typeface broadcasts have recently been confirmed for a number of PBS stations across the US. Check out details on new screenings of our award-wwining film below in California, New York, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, Florida and North Carolina, all coming in the final days of May. Get full listings here.

• Ohio - WEAO/WNEO - May 22, 3pm.
• Illinois - WYCC - May 22, 7pm; May 26, 7pm; May 28, 8pm.
• Texas - KTXT - May 24, 9pm.
• Florida - WMFE Encore! - May 25, 11am.
• North Carolina - UNC-MX - May 26, 8pm.
• New York - WCNY - May 26, 11pm
• Indiana - WFYI - May 27, 8pm.
• California - KQED/KTEH - May 30, 11pm; May 31, 5am.

Don't see your local PBS station listed? Contact them and request a Typeface screening today!

Also, have you purchased your Typeface limited edition DVD featuring an exclusive print from the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Musuem? Why not!? We're down to just under 70 copies left of these special DVDs, and the only place you can get them from is the Kartemquin store.

Typeface continues its PBS broadcast run tonight with a Boston/New Hampshire television premiere on NHPTV Explore at 9pm.

We've also been able to confirm new broadcasts coming up this week in Denver, Michigan, Kansas City and Rhode Island! Here's the full list of upcoming broadcasts:

• Boston - NHPTV - 4/25: 9pm and 4/26: 1am & 2pm
• Colorado - CPT12 - 4/27: 9pm and 4/29: 11:30pm
• Tampa Bay - WUSF - 4/27: 10pm and 4/28: 1am
• Michigan - WCMU/WCMVDT2/WCMLDT2 - 4/28: 9pm
• Cincinnati - CET - 4/30: 8pm and 5/1: 8am & 5pm and 5/2: 10am & 3pm
• Kansas City - KCPT2 - 5/1: 4pm
• Rhode Island - WSBE - 5/6:10pm and 5/7: 5am and 5/8: 2am

A full list by date and with links to the PBS outlets is also on our Typeface events page. Don't see your local PBS station listed? Contact them and request a Typeface screening today! You can make it happen!

And don't forget that to celebrate all this Typeface on your TV, we're offering 15% off the remaining limited edition Typeface DVDs in our store. Just use the coupon code #TFONPBS to get the discount before May 15th.

On Twitter? Use the hashtag #TFonPBS to tweet your reviews, thoughts and updates on broadcasts of @typefacefilm as they happen!

 

Typeface is currently being broadcast nationally across many different PBS outlets. Please check your local listings as so many new screenings are being added that we can barely keep up with adding them to our website (we just found out about 30 different markets carrying the film)!

Here's a list of upcoming cities and PBS stations that are carrying the film between today and April 30th. Some of these stations have multiple broadcasts planned across multiple digital channels, so really check those listings and don't miss it! We'll try to add more broadcasts as we hear about them.

• Tampa Bay - WEDU - 4/14: 11pm
• Miami - WPBT - 4/15: 10pm
• Grand Rapids - WGVK - 4/15: 4am
• Kentucky - KET - 4/16: 3am and 4/17: 2am and 4/18: 10pm.
• Spokane/Calgary/Edmonton - KSPS - 4/16: 3pm
• Houston - KUHT Create - 4/17: 6pm
• Tampa Bay - WUSF - 4/18: 5am and 4/27: 10pm
• Miami - WLRN - 4/18: 12am
• Washington D.C - WHUT - 4/19: 8pm and 4/20: 10pm
• Boston - NHPTV - 4/25: 9pm and 4/26: 2pm
• Cincinnati - CET - 4/30: 8pm

A full list of screenings can be found on our Typeface events page. Don't see your local PBS station listed? Contact them and request a Typeface screening today!

And, GET THIS! To celebrate all this Typeface on your TV, we're offering 15% off the remaining limited edition Typeface DVDs in our store. Just use the coupon code #TFONPBS to get the discount before May 15th.

 

On Twitter? Use the hashtag #TFonPBS to tweet your reviews, thoughts and updates on broadcasts of @typefacefilm as they happen!

Four new docs produced by Kartemquin Films – The Interrupters, Prisoner of Her Past, A Good Man, and Typeface – will screen in the Twin Cities this April as part of Kartemquin’s 45^th anniversary celebration. All showings except Typeface are Minneapolis / St.Paul and Minnesota State premieres.

As a leader in the growing Midwestern media arts community, Kartemquin is proud to share a rich history with the area. A number of Kartemquin staff members have strong Minnesota connections - Executive Director andTypeface director Justine Nagan hails from Minneapolis, as does Post Production Director and Typeface editor Liz Kaar. Typeface had two sold-out sneak previews at the Walker Art Center in November of 2008 and is now back by popular demand.

"We're thrilled to include Minnesota in our 45th anniversary celebrations. We look forward to continuing our relationship with audiences in the Twin Cities,” said Justine Nagan. “There is such a rich history of support for the arts and social change- it's not a surprise that viewers in MN have been so engaged with our work in the past.  We're excited to be back."

Historically, Kartemquin Films has also collaborated and fostered a strong relationship with a number of Minneapolis institutions. Twin Cities Public Television was a Co-Producer for Hoop Dreams in 1994, and was instrumental in bringing the multi-award-winning film to broadcast. Additionally, Kartemquin Films’ Founder and Artistic Director, Gordon Quinn, will be a judge for a portion of the 2011 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival.

Attendees of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival will have an opportunity to see A Good Man and The Interrupters playing on a same-day double bill on April 24th. A Good Man director Gordon Quinn and The Interrupters director and Oscar-nominee Steve James will be present for the screenings. This screening of A Good Man will only be the film’s second screening after its world premiere at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, while The Interrupters comes fresh from winning the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Miami Film Festival.

Prisoner of Her Past will broadcast on national PBS this spring, with Twin Cities Public Television airing the film on May 1^st at 1pm, Typeface will follow with a summer broadcast on TPT. A Good Man will be broadcast on American Masters in Fall 2011, and The Interrupters will be released in theaters this summer and air on Frontline in 2012.

Minneapolis screenings and broadcasts:

• Prisoner of Her Past
April 14^th, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Center for Changing Lives
2400 Park Avenue S.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Director Gordon Quinn, Producer/Subject, Howard Reich, and Kartemquin Executive Director Justine Nagan to attend.

• Typeface
April 16^th, 2pm
Part of a free all-day family event: “Gutenberg Meets Google: The Future of Type in a Digital Age” from 11am-3:30pm - presented in partnership with The Loft Literary Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Milkweed Editions
Open Book
1011 Washington Ave S # 301
Minneapolis, MN 55415-1277
Director/Producer Justine Nagan and film subject Bill Moran of the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum to attend.

• A Good Man
April 24^th, 2:00 pm
St. Anthony Main Theatre
115 SE Main St.
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Director Gordon Quinn to attend.

• The Interrupters
April 24^th, 4:30 pm
St. Anthony Main Theatre
115 SE Main St.
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Director Steve James and Executive Producer Gordon Quinn to attend.

• The Interrupters
April 25^th, 7:30 pm
St. Anthony Main Theatre
115 SE Main St.
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Director Steve James and Executive Producer Gordon Quinn to attend.

•A Good Man
April 26^th, 6:45 pm
St. Anthony Main Theatre
115 SE Main St.
Minneapolis, MN 5541
Director Gordon Quinn to attend.

• Prisoner of Her Past (Broadcast)
May 1^st, 1pm
Twin Cities Public Television (TPT)

Contact for screeners and interview requests: Tim Horsburgh. Tim@kartemquin.com.773-472-4366.

On March 31st at 9pm, WTTW will broadcast Inquiring Nuns, the first film of their year-long celebration of Kartemquin's 45th Anniversary.

The series will include the television premieres of three new films: Prisoner of Past, A Good Man, and The Interrupters, as well as viewer favorites like Typeface and In the Family, and classics such as Taylor Chain and Now We Live on Clifton. Each film in the series will be preceded by a brief introduction from a key producer or subject of the film shot at Kartemquin's historic Chicago headquarters, where we've been located since 1971.

In this video, Kartemquin's Gordon Quinn and Justine Nagan introduce the series, and explain why series opener Inquiring Nuns is an example of our signature style: examining and critiquing society through stories in which people speak for themselves. Tune in on Thursday and see a cinema verite classic!