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Grassroots Chicago

from Kartemquin Films PRO on January 4, 2022 1 video

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A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes on community organizing in different Chicago neighborhoods: LeClaire Courts, Marquette Park, Roseland, Pilsen, Uptown, Rogers Park, and Garfield Park.

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Women's Voices: The Gender Gap

from Kartemquin Films PRO on November 16, 2020 1 video

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This documentary explores the growing difference in the voting patterns of men and women (the gender gap) that could no longer be denied by the mid-1980's. Issues like compensation equality, environmental preservation, subsidized childcare and healthcare became wedge issues in Ronald Reagan's…

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The Last Pullman Car

from Kartemquin Films PRO on November 18, 2020 1 video

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In 1864, George Pullman began selling his famous railroad sleeping cars which helped him build a vast industrial empire that was supposed to last forever. In 1981, however, Pullman workers found themselves in the midst of a fight not only for their jobs but the future of the American rail car industry.…

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Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

from Kartemquin Films PRO on January 4, 2022 1 video

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In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to save the plant from becoming the latest victim of anti-union legislation and the globalization of cheap, exploitable labor.

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Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

from Kartemquin Films PRO on January 4, 2022 1 video

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Taylor Chain I tells the gritty realities of a seven-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory during 1973-74. Volatile union meetings and tension-filled interactions on the picket line provide an inside view of the tensions and conflicts inherent to labor negotiations. Due to a lack of funds and…

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The Chicago Maternity Center Story

from Kartemquin Films PRO on November 16, 2020 1 video

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For more than 75 years, the Chicago Maternity Center provided safe home deliveries for Chicago mothers. However, when modern medicine's attitude toward home birth changed and funding from Northwestern University declined in 1974, the center was forced to close. This film interweaves the history…

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First We Eat

from Suzanne Crocker PRO on November 11, 2020 1 video

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What happens when an ordinary family, living just south of the Arctic Circle, bans all grocery store food from their house for one year? Add three skeptical teenagers, one reluctant husband, no salt, no caffeine, no sugar and -40 temperatures. For one year, filmmaker Suzanne Crocker feeds her…

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Trick Bag

from Kartemquin Films PRO on November 30, 2020 1 video

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Gang members, Vietnam vets, and young factory workers from Chicago's neighborhoods tell of their personal experience with racism: who gets hurt and who profits. The film was brought to Kartemquin by Peter Kuttner, and credits are shared between Kartemquin, Rising Up Angry, and Columbia College Chicago.

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Viva la Causa

from Kartemquin Films PRO on December 22, 2021 1 video

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Not just a colorful record of the making of a mural in Chicago's Pilsen community led by Ray Patlán, this film traces the mural movement of the mid-1970's back to murals in Mexico. Different people view the mural and reflect on its meaning for themselves as Latinos.

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FREED CLIMB - L'escalade libérée

from AIR libre PRO on November 11, 2020 1 video

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Antoine Le Menestrel, former high level climber, tells us with sincerity and sensitivity, his story at the cliff of Buoux, France and his vision of climbing today. From his discovery of Buoux being very young with his brother and his parents, he will discover this cliff and the work of opening up routes. A…

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Winnie Wright, Age 11

from Kartemquin Films PRO on November 18, 2020 1 video

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Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family struggles with racism, inflation and a threatened strike, as Winnie learns what it means to grow up white, working class, and female. The film was created…

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Now We Live on Clifton

from Kartemquin Films PRO on November 30, 2020 1 video

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Now We Live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood. The kids worry that they'll be forced out of the neighborhood they grew up in by the gentrification following the expansion of DePaul University. This…

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