Kartemquin Films

Chicago: Segregated City

Kartemquin Films is collaborating with Black Cinema House to present “Chicago: Segregated City”, a screening and discussion of three of Kartemquin’s classic films about racial issues in Chicago, along with an exclusive sneak preview of 63 Boycott, their in-progress film about the 1963 boycott of Chicago Public Schools by thousands of African American parents and…

December 13, 2012

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Arts & Culture, Chicago Cultural History, Film and Television

Black Cinema House, Chicago, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Public Schools, Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films
Sundown in K-Town: North Lawndale Documentary Festival

Sundown in K-Town Teaser from BetterBoys Foundation on Vimeo. Better Boys Foundation (BBF) and Facets Multi-Media announce a film festival comprised of a series of social documentaries screened outside in the inner courtyard of the BBF Center at 1512 S. Pulaski Road . These groundbreaking documentaries such as The Murder of Fred Hampton (pictured at…

July 14, 2012

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Arts & Culture, Chicago Cultural History, Cult Movie of the Week, Events, Film and Television, Lack Versus Fat, the Freshness, Visual Arts

Arts, Better Boys Foundation, Black Panthers, Chicago, Documentary film, Facets Multi-Media, Film festival, Head Start program, Kartemquin Films, North Lawndale