The 29th annual Dallas VideoFest will honor Kartemquin's 50th Anniversary Oct 18-23, screening Hoop Dreams, Where's I.W. Abel?, Unbroken Glass and The Trials of Muhammad Ali. Continued

Raising Bertie Director Margaret Byrne won the 2016 Best First-Time Director award at the Downtown LA Film Festival. It's the third in a streak of honors for Raising Bertie, having won Best Documentary Feature at Atlanta DocuFest and Best Director at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival. Continued

Saving Mes Aynak is slated for a prestigious festival run this fall that will travel across the US, from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC to the UCLA Film & Television Archive in Los Angeles through the China Onscreen Biennial (COB), a showcase of Chinese film and media arts for American audiences. Continued

WTTW, Chicago's premier public television station, will broadcast Kartemquin's 2015 In the Game at 9PM on Thursday October 6, as part of a year-long series honoring our 50th Anniversary. Encore broadcasts will also happen on Friday October 7, at 3PM, and again at 3AM on Tuesday October 11. The film will also be streaming online during these dates and times for America Reframed. Continued

The University of Chicago will honor Gordon Quinn, AB '65, with an Alumni Professional Achievement Award. The Professional Achievement Awards honor alumni whose achievements in their vocational fields have brought distinction to themselves, credit to the University, and real benefit to their communities. The Awards event takes place at the Drake Hotel in Chicago on Friday, November 4th, at 7:30pm. After the awards ceremony, the festivities continue with a Career Month celebration and alumni networking event. Get more information. Continued

Kartemquin Films is pleased to announce the world premiere of Unbroken Glass. Graduate of the University of Chicago and former Kartemquin intern, Dinesh Das Sabu debuts his feature documentary at the 2016 Seattle South Asian Film Festival on October 22. The film will then receive its Texas premiere at Dallas Videofest on October 23, and its Chicago premiere on November 2nd as part of the Kartemquin Fall Festival. Unbroken Glass weaves together Das Sabu’s journey of discovery with cinema-verite scenes of his family dealing with still raw emotions and consequences of his immigrant parents’ lives and deaths. The film was shot over five years in Illinois, New Mexico, California, and India. Continued

From today until Friday, October 7th, the free KTQ50 film is Life Itself (2014). Watch it now. "A life spent at the movies gets the cinematic epitaph it richly deserves in Life Itself, documentarian Steve James’ meticulous and intensely emotional portrait of the late Roger Ebert." — Scott Foundas, Variety Continued

In the Game, directed by Peabody award-winner Maria Finitzo, will have its broadcast premiere on America Reframed Tuesday, September 27 at 8 pm. Check local listings here. The film follows the ups and downs of a girls' soccer team to reveal the very real obstacles that low-income students confront in their quest for higher education. Set in a primarily Hispanic neighborhood, Kelly High School on Chicago's south side is an inner city public school struggling to provide the basics for their students, many of whom do not make it to college, either because they cannot compete academically or because their families do not have the financial resources to send them to college. Continued

From today until Friday, September 30th, the free KTQ50 film is American Arab (2013). Continued

Kartemquin Films won two Emmy Awards tonight at the 37th News and Documentary Emmys in New York City. The Homestretch, directed and produced by Kirsten Kelly and Anne de Mare, won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting - Long Form. Life Itself won Outstanding Editing: Documentary And Long Form for the film's Editors Steve James and David E. Simpson. Continued