Gordon Quinn

Gordon Quinn is artistic director and founding member of Kartemquin Films and a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for over 45 years and has produced or directed over 30 films. His recent directing credits include Prisoner of Her Past and A Good Man. His producing credits include the films Hoop Dreams; In the Fa...

Gordon Quinn is artistic director and founding member of Kartemquin Films and a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for over 45 years and has produced or directed over 30 films. His recent directing credits include Prisoner of Her Past and A Good Man. His producing credits include the films Hoop Dreams; In the Family;Vietnam, Long Time Coming; Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes; 5 Girls; Refrigerator Mothers; and Stevie. Most recently, Gordon executive produced Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita and The New Americans, for which he directed the Palestinian segment. Currently, he is executive producing several new films for Kartemquin. Gordon has been a long-time supporter of public media and community-based independent media groups, and served on the boards of several organizations including the National Coalition of Public Broadcast Producers, the Citizens Committee on the Media, the Chicago Access Corporation, the Illinois Humanities Council, the Public Square Advisory Committee and the Illinois Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Filmography Executive Producer: America to Me, 2018 Minding the Gap, 2018 '63 Boycott, 2017 Edith+Eddie, 2017 Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, 2016 Hard Earned, 2015 The Trials of Muhammad Ali American Arab A Good Man The Interrupters, in 2011 No Crossover, in 2010 Typeface, in 2009 At the Death House Door, in 2008 Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, 2007 The New Americans, 2004 TV episode 5 Girls, 2001 Hoop Dreams, 1994 Producer: Prisoner of Her Past, in 2010 (with Joanna Rudnick and Howard Reich) In the Family, in 2008 (with Joanna Rudnick) Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes, 2004 (with Jerry Blumenthal) Refrigerator Mothers, 2003 (with JJ Hanley and David E. Simpson) Stevie, 2002 Vietnam, Long Time Coming, 1998 Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries, 1994 Higher Goals, 1993 Grassroots Chicago, 1991 Golub, 1988 Taylor Chain, 1985 Women's Voices: The Gender Gap, 1984 The Last Pullman Car, 1983 The Chicago Maternity Center Story, 1976 Marco, 1970 (with Gerald Temaner) Thumbs Down, 1968 Home for Life, 1968 Director: For The Left Hand, 2021 (co-director) A Good Man, in 2011 Prisoner of Her Past, in 2010 Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes, 2004 The New Americans, 2004 TV episode (Palestinian story director) Vietnam, Long Time Coming, 1998 Golub, 1988 The Last Pullman Car, 1983 Marco, 1970 Thumbs Down, 1968 Home for Life, 1968 Inquiring Nuns, 1968 Cinematographer: Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes, 2004 The New Americans, 2004 TV episode Aging Out, 2004 Refrigerator Mothers, 2003 Stevie, 2002 Vietnam, Long Time Coming, 1998 Grassroots Chicago, 1991 Golub, 1988 Women's Voices: The Gender Gap, 1984 Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining, 1984 Anarchism in America, 1983 The Last Pullman Car, 1983 All of Us Stronger, 1976 Hum 255, 1969 Thumbs Down, 1968 Home for Life, 1968 Inquiring Nuns, 1968 Editor: Marco, 1970 Home for Life, 1968 Inquiring Nuns, 1968 Thumbs Down, 1968 Eat the Document, 1967, 1972 Writer: The Last Pullman Car, 1983 Awards Excellence in Documentary Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival for Stevie, 2003 External links Gordon Quinn at IMDb References