Fenell Doremus began her documentary film career in 1992 as an Assistant Editor on the award-winning Hoop Dreams. She went on to serve as staff Producer at Kartemquin Films until 1999. Doremus was Segment Producer and a Segment Editor of The New Americans. Hailed as “Totally engrossing…filled with many unexpected riches…” by The New York Times, the series was nationally broadcast on PBS in 2004 and won multiple awards at festivals worldwide. She has Produced and Edited segments for the Emmy Award winning regional PBS series ArtBeat. In 2001 ArtBeat aired a show devoted entirely to A Year On Teen Street her documentary following a teen theater group for a year. In 2002 she spent a month in India shooting and associate producing Quiet Strength, a documentary about exiled Tibetan nuns. Doremus is currently producing Devon Avenue: An American Street about the complexity of ethnic diversity on one of Chicago’s North Side neighborhoods. The film is being made with partial funding from the Illinois Humanities Council.
The deadline for Summer internships at Kartemquin has passed. Applications are currently being accepted for the Fall.