Gordon Quinn is President and founding member of Kartemquin Films, a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Kartemquin Films is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 1966 by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner and Stan Karter three University of Chicago graduates who Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for over 40 years. His recent producing credits include the films Hoop Dreams; Vietnam, Long Time Coming; Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes; 5 Girls; Refrigerator Mothers; and Stevie. Hoop Dreams is a 1994 Documentary film directed by Steve James. Vietnam Long Time Coming is a documentary released in 1998 by Kartemquin Films. 5 Girls is a documentary released in 2001 by Kartemquin Films for PBS's P Most recently, Gordon executive produced Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita and The New Americans, for which he directed the Palestinian segment. Editing Mapping Stem Cell Research Terra Incognita is a feature length documentary released by Kartemquin Films in 2007 The New Americans is a seven-hour American documentary that was originally broadcast on American Television over three nights on the Public Currently, he is producing At The Death House Door, Milking the Rhino and Typeface for Kartemquin Films, as well as directing a film on delayed posttraumatic stress syndrome, Prisoner of Her Past.
Gordon has been a long-time supporter of public media and community-based independent media groups, and served on the boards of several organizations including The National Coalition of Public Broadcast Producers, The Citizens Committee on the Media, The Chicago Public Access Corporation, The Illinois Humanities Council, The Public Square Advisory Committee and The IL Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Filmography
Executive Producer:
- At the Death House Door, in 2008
- Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, 2007
- The New Americans, 2004 TV episode
- 5 Girls, 2001
- Hoop Dreams, 1994
Producer:
- In the Family, in 2008 (with Joanna Rudnick)
- Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes, 2004 (with Jerry Blumenthal)
- Refrigerator Mothers, 2003 (with JJ Hanley and David E. Editing Mapping Stem Cell Research Terra Incognita is a feature length documentary released by Kartemquin Films in 2007 The New Americans is a seven-hour American documentary that was originally broadcast on American Television over three nights on the Public 5 Girls is a documentary released in 2001 by Kartemquin Films for PBS's P Hoop Dreams is a 1994 Documentary film directed by Steve James. Simpson)
- Stevie, 2002
- Vietnam, Long Time Coming, 1998
- Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries, 1994
- Higher Goals, 1993
- Grassroots Chicago, 1991
- Golub, 1988
- Taylor Chain, 1985
- Women's Voices: The Gender Gap, 1984
- The Last Pullman Car, 1983
- The Chicago Maternity Center Story, 1976
- Marco, 1970 (with Gerald Temaner)
- Thumbs Down, 1968
- Home For Life, 1968
Director:
- Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes, 2004
- The New Americans, 2004 TV episode (Palestinian story director)
- Vietnam, Long Time Coming, 1998
- Golub, 1988
- Marco, 1970
- Thumbs Down, 1968
- Home For Life, 1968
- Inquiring Nuns, 1968
Cinematographer:
- Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes, 2004
- The New Americans, 2004 TV episode
- Aging Out, 2004
- Refrigerator Mothers, 2003
- Stevie, 2002
- Vietnam, Long Time Coming, 1998
- Grassroots Chicago, 1991
- Golub, 1988
- Women's Voices: The Gender Gap, 1984
- Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining, 1984
- Anarchism in America, 1983
- The Last Pullman Car, 1983
- All of Us Stronger, 1976
- Hum 255, 1969
- Thumbs Down, 1968
- Home For Life, 1968
- Inquiring Nuns, 1968
Editor:
- Marco, 1970
- Home For Life, 1968
- Inquiring Nuns, 1968
- Thumbs Down, 1968
Writer:
- The Last Pullman Car, 1983