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Kartemquin Films

Chicago, Illinois(approximate location)

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film
LocationChicago, Illinois
Websitekartemquin.com
Emailinfo@kartemquin.com
Social
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Phone+1 773 472 4366
Statusactive2026 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
8.0IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

12 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Oscars0of3nominations0%
Emmys0of2nominations0%

166 wins from 327 nominations across all awards

Box office
$9m

Combined US gross, 7 of 66 titles

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Highest rated
Saving Mes Aynak
2014
8.51,039 votes
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Lowest rated
Almost There
2015
6.4126 votes
Mostly
documentary, biography, short
Active
1968–2026
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Best known for
Hoop Dreams

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 43 of 66 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
33 seasons

2015–2020

Television rating
7.6IMDb

Their films average 8.0, so the television rates 0.4 lower.

Networks
  • National Geographic1
  • STARZ1
  • Audience1

Across 3 series matched to TMDB, 25 episodes. 1 still returning or in production.

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 66

64 films · 2 TV titles

Titles per year46 titles · busiest 2010 with 4

46 titles across 24 years, averaging 1.9 a year. The last five years hold at 2.0 a year. 4 of those 24 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time11 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
579their average 8.0200020102020

Their 2010s work is their strongest, averaging 7.8 across 8 titles. 4 of 11 rated titles sit above their 7.8 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Steve James7
  • Gordon Quinn7
  • Jerry Blumenthal4
  • Brandon Kramer2
  • Joanna Rudnick2
Writers
  • Will Csaklos2
  • Leslie Simmer2
Genres
  • Documentary40 of 43
  • Biography6 of 43
  • Short6 of 43
  • Drama3 of 43
  • Sport3 of 43

Names appearing on two or more of Kartemquin Films’s produced titles, across the 43 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with12 companies

Companies that appear alongside Kartemquin Films on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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