Edith+Eddie by Laura Checkoway is one of six nominees for the International Documentary Association's Best Short Award. This is one of numerous prestigious wins for the short, following its recent selection as a recipient of an AFI DOCS Impact Grant, in addition to earning Outstanding Documentary Short at the Tallgrass Film Festival. The film recently had its Chicago premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival to a sold-out crowd. On November 13 the film will screen as an official selection of the Meet the Press Film Festival in collaboration with the American Film Institute (AFI). Continued

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All The Queen's Horses, the highly anticipated debut feature from director Kelly Pope Richmond, will come to the Gene Siskel Film Center for a two-week theatrical run beginning November 10. Purchase tickets here. Continued

Edith+Eddie by Laura Checkoway has been announced as one of four recipients of an AFI DOCS Impact Grant awarded by NBCUniversal. The grant is intended to fund outreach and social action campaigns for the winning documentaries. In more Edith+Eddie news, the film took home another award this past weekend at the Tallgrass Film Festival, earning Outstanding Documentary Short. The film Chicago premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival on Sunday, October 22 to a sold-out crowd. Continued

54 years in the making, '63 Boycott world premieres this weekend at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 22 at 3:30PM, alongside Kartemquin short Edith+Eddie's Chicago premiere, in a program entitled Can't Turn Back at the fest. Tickets available for purchase here. The film, the story of the ongoing struggle for racial equity in Chicago Public Schools spanning from the historic 1963 Chicago Public School boycott to the present, will have its world premiere on the 54th anniversary of the boycott. Filmmakers Rachel Dickson, Tracye A. Matthews and Gordon Quinn as well as the film's subjects will be in attendance. Continued

The Meet the Press Film Festival in Collaboration with the American Film Institute (AFI) announced its full slate of official selections––including Edith+Eddie by Laura Checkoway. The inaugural film festival includes 16 short-length political documentaries by filmmakers across the country. Film screenings will be organized under seven issues and followed by Q&A's with the respective filmmakers and an NBC News correspondent. Continued

The 30th annual Virginia Film Festival will include a slate of three Kartemquin Films including 63-Boycott, Edith+Eddie and Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. All three films will play on Sunday, November 12 at the fest. '63 Boycott - Sunday, Nov 12 5:00PM Edith+Eddie - Sunday, Nov 12 8:30PM Abacus - Sunday, Nov 12 1:45PM Continued

Keep Talking, the directorial debut from Karen Weinberg, will travel to its home state to screen both at the Anchorage Museum for a special preview screening before its Alaska premiere at the Anchorage International Film Festival. The film will screen at the Anchorage Museum on November 30th at 6PM, followed by a panel discussion. The program is free and open to the public. The film world premiered on October 3rd at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Praise for Keep Talking "A deftly-woven ode to language as identity and community."–24Hours Vancouver Continued

Edith+Eddie by filmmaker Laura Checkoway and Abacus: Small Enough to Jail by director Steve James continue their respectively successful and award-winning festival runs – both traveling to DOC NYC, America's largest documentary film festival, running November 9-16. Three films that went through our KTQ Labs program will also have their NYC premieres at the fest, including Shot in the Dark, Samantha's Amazing Acrocats and Zero Weeks Abacus screenings at DOC NYC Continued

A film as indefatigable as its subjects, Abacus:Small Enough to Jail has been nominated for three Critics' Choice Documentary Awards including Best Documentary and Best Political Documentary, and the Sung Family has been nominated for Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary. Indiewire reports here. Continued