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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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Sports Action Profile: Al McGuire

from Kartemquin Films PRO on August 20, 2024 1 video

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In 1972, Kartemquin Films co-produced and edited Sports Action Pro-Files for broadcast on NBC. These 20-minute profiles of the country's most exciting sports talent captured coaches, managers and athletes at the apex of their careers.

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Sports Action Profile: Bo Schembechler

from Kartemquin Films PRO on August 20, 2024 1 video

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In 1972, Kartemquin Films co-produced and edited Sports Action Pro-Files for broadcast on NBC. These 20-minute profiles of the country's most exciting sports talent captured coaches, managers and athletes at the apex of their careers.

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Sports Action Profile: Ron Lyle

from Kartemquin Films PRO on August 20, 2024 1 video

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In 1972, Kartemquin Films co-produced and edited Sports Action Pro-Files for broadcast on NBC. These 20-minute profiles of the country's most exciting sports talent captured coaches, managers and athletes at the apex of their careers.

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Anonymous Artists of America

from Kartemquin Films PRO on December 8, 2021 1 video

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While touring the U.S. in a brightly painted school bus, the psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America stop to hold a performance at an alma mater, the University of Chicago. Inspired by LSD, the group once opened for the Grateful Dead and played at Ken Kesey’s infamous Acid Test…

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Roy: A Finnish Boy Who Caught 'The Bug'

from Finnish American Heritage Center PRO on November 11, 2020 1 video

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Roy Helander has led a life devoted to Finnish-American history and culture, a passion he shared most frequently on stage. Enjoy the journey through nine decades as Roy shares anecdotes about his time on- and off-stage, and back-stage, as well as numerous other aspects of his life immersed in Finnish-American…

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