Kartemquin Films: 50 Years of Democracy Through Documentary
@ Expo 72
72 E Randolph, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, August 6th, at 1:30 PM
Ife Olatunji; Collective Voices Ethnographic Film Festival Preview
Ife Olatunji will be showing clips from previous years winners, and holding a discussion of the role of diverse filmmakers in Chicago.
Olatunji is a visual anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, and film critic. Born into a family of artists and activists, she graduated from Syracuse University with a BA in Anthropology (‘06), and a minor in photography and African American History. Ife completed her MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester, UK (‘10) after creating a short documentary on daily life for girls in Rajasthan, India. She has since lived in Chicago, taught documentary and film production to youth as young as 6 years old to adults at community centers and The Art Institute of Wisconsin. For the past four years, she has been a media educator with Facets Multimedia teaching media literacy, narrative editing, and documentary filmmaking. As a Diverse Voices in Documentary fellow with Kartemquin, Ife developed her own short observational film, and worked with others to produce and edit their projects. Ife has continued to work with The Community Film Workshop, Reel Black Filmmakers, and Collected Voices: Chicago’s Ethnographic Film Festival. An advocate for diversity and inclusion, Ife believes race and gender should not be categories of film festivals, but rather the very topics film seeks to explore: www.collectedvoicesfilmfest.com.
For the first time in it’s history, Kartemquin has sorted through over 30,000 elements to curate an exhibition spanning the evolution of the film collective and of documentary filmmaking itself, including the creation of classic films such as Inquiring Nuns(1968), Hoop Dreams (1994) and The New Americans (2003). Cameras, film stills, photographs, documents and more will be on display, with the exhibit continually evolving throughout the three month run as KTQ staff will drop in to add to and reflect on the display.
Additionally, KTQ staff, associates, and filmmakers will host intimate dialogues and talks about filmmaking, social justice, and creating democracy through filmmaking.
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