About the decision to hire Amir George, Gordon Quinn explains, “We really wanted someone we felt was going to help transform us into what the next iteration of Kartemquin would be.”
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Arts 77 shores up the city’s creative infrastructure
Chicago’s new Arts 77 program will spend $60 million on cultural facilities and art.
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Finding Yingying looks at the human impact of a tragic crime
Jiayan “Jenny” Shi’s documentary honors Yingying Zhang as a person, not a victim.
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An Unapologetic love letter to Chicago’s Black women activists
The documentary takes audiences to the front lines with millennial women leading the city’s Movement for Black Lives.
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Real Chicago
The scariest thing about our city is how our political system works.
Posted inFilm
City So Real is peak Chicago
Steve James’s docuseries authentically captures the people and places that define the city.
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Kartemquin Films honors Diverse Voices
The organization nurtures rising Chicago documentarians through its grant program.
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Doc Films is movie history
And you can still see a lot of it on 35 mm—the way it was meant to be seen.
Posted inMusic
Natural Information Society make the stage a home—and vice versa
Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado of Natural Information Society help give the Chicago collective’s transcendent minimalism a family feeling.
Posted inNews & Politics
Rahm’s Chicago Stories podcast takes you inside the mind of the mayor
We listened to all 18 hours of it so you don’t have to.
Posted inFilm
An interview with Laura Checkoway, director of the Oscar-nominated Edith+Eddie
The Kartemquin Films release profiles nonagenarian newlyweds who were torn apart.
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Tales of seduction and betrayal light up Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
Hello Again, a musical reimagining of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, opens the fest’s 35th edition.
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The Crosstown Classic, Grave Robbing 101, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Lollapalooza, Sake 101, and more happenings from July 25-28.
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Are you happy? Inquiring nuns want to know
A 1968 documentary from Kartemquin Films explores the nature of fulfillment.