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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 wanted to make documentary films guided by their principle of "Cinematic Social Inquiry. Gordon Quinn is President and founding member of Kartemquin Films, a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. " They were soon joined by Jerry Blumenthal who along with Gordon Quinn remain with the organization today.

Kartemquin's first film in 1966, Home For Life -- a chronicle of two elderly people entering a home for the aged -- established the direction the organization would take over the next four decades. Home for Life, the founding documentary of Kartemquin Films released in 1967 depicts the experiences of two elderly people in their first month at a home for the aged Kartemquin evolved into a film collective producing films such as The Chicago Maternity Center Story and the Taylor Chain films. They continued releasing social-issue documentaries (The Last Pullman Car, Golub) largely for public television and the educational market into the 1990s.

Kartemquin's best known film, Hoop Dreams, won several major critics prizes and journalism awards in 1995 and was named on over 150 “ten best” lists. Hoop Dreams is a 1994 Documentary film directed by Steve James. Filmmakers Steve James, Peter Gilbert and Fred Marx examined the complex role basketball plays in the lives of two inner-city high school players. Steve James can refer to multiple people Steve James (producer, American Producer and Director Steve James (cricketer, an English cricketer Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m After receiving the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Hoop Dreams was released theatrically by Fine Line Features and became the highest grossing documentary at that time and one of highest-rated documentaries broadcast on PBS. The Polish Academy Audience Award is an annual award given by audience to the best Polish Film of the year The Sundance Film Festival is a Film festival that takes place annually in the state of Utah, in the United States. Fine Line Features was the speciality films division of New Line Cinema. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the

Since Hoop Dreams, Kartemquin has continued producing films that examine and critique society by following the stories of real people. At the Death House Door recently premiered at SXSW, and went on to win awards at Full Frame and other festivals. At the Death House Door is a 2008 Documentary film about Carroll Pickett, who served as the death house chaplain to the infamous "Walls" Their recent documentary, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, follows Dr. Editing Mapping Stem Cell Research Terra Incognita is a feature length documentary released by Kartemquin Films in 2007 Jack Kessler of Northwestern University in his search for a cure for spinal cord injuries using embryonic stem cells. Other recent documentaries have included: The New Americans, a seven-hour miniseries for PBS that follows immigrant families from five different countries; Stevie; Refrigerator Mothers; 5 Girls; and Vietnam, Long Time Coming. 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 Vietnam Long Time Coming is a documentary released in 1998 by Kartemquin Films. In 2007, Kartemquin Films received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The group is located in Chicago, Illinois and is still run by Gordon Quinn. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States.

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