A Good Man

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Website

http://www.kartemquin.com

Topics

Arts & Culture: Blues, Mixed Media, Modern Dance , Opera, Poetry, Postmodern Dance, Rock Music, Theater
Human Development: Children, Education
Human Rights: Civil Rights, Race Politics, Social Exclusion
Peace and Conflict: Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Peace
Politics: Civil Society, Democracy, Governance

Project Geography

US: National

Identity Niches

African American, Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Transgender

Budget

Raised to date: $820,000.00
Estimate to complete: $63,000.00
Total Estimated Budget: $883,000.00
The budget numbers above are accurate as of 10/14/2010

Status

Post Production

Media Type

Video

Project End Use

TV

Key Personnel

Joanna Rudnick
Producer
JOANNA RUDNICK is a documentary filmmaker with Kartemquin Films. She recently completed her directorial debut In the Family, a nominee for the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming—Long Form. In the Family premiered at SILVERDOCS in 2008, was broadcast nationally on PBS' P.O.V. the same year, and was a finalist for the NIHCM Foundation’s Health Care Radio and Television Journalism Award. She is currently producing two feature-length films for Kartemquin, Prisoner of Her Past, and A Good Man, and developing a documentary on photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world to photograph kids with genetic conditions.

Joanna has been working in documentary filmmaking for a decade. During her tenure at the American Masters series at WNET in New York, Joanna co-produced Robert Capa In Love And War, which was broadcast on PBS and the BBC, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and was the presenting film for the 2003 Emmy award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series.

Joanna holds a master’s degree from NYU in Science and Environmental Reporting and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University. She is an adjunct professor at Medill School of Journalism teaching a class in documentary filmmaking.

Gordon Quinn
Director

As Artistic Director and founding member of Kartemquin Films, 2007 recipient of the MacArthur award for Creative and Effective Institutions, GORDON QUINN has been making documentaries for over 40 years.  His producing credits include such award-winning and highly acclaimed films as Hoop Dreams; Vietnam, Long Time Coming; Golub; 5 Girls; Refrigerator Mothers, Stevie, for which he won the Cinematography Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and The New Americans (for which Gordon also directed the Palestinian segment).  Most recently, Gordon executive produced Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, At The Death House Door, Milking the Rhino and In the Family. He is currently Executive Producing Typeface as well as directing a film on delayed posttraumatic stress syndrome, Prisoner of Her Past. 

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 Public Access Corporation, The Illinois Humanities Council, The Public Square Advisory Committee and The IL Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Bob Hercules
Director

BOB HERCULES is an independent filmmaker and co-owner of Media Process Group—a Chicago-based production company. His work has been seen widely on PBS, the Discovery Channel, IFC, The Learning Channel and through television syndication nationwide.  Hercules’ 2006 documentary, Forgiving Dr. Mengele, tells the remarkable story of Auschwitz survivor and former ‘Mengele twin’ Eva Mozes Kor, whose decision to forgive the perpetrators as an act of self-healing sparked a firestorm of criticism.  The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival and the Crystal Heart Award at the 2006 Heartland Film Festival. It has been shown in film festivals around the world.

His newest documentary, Senator Obama Goes to Africa, was released on DVD by First Run Features and has run on television stations worldwide.  The film is a chronicle of Obama’s momentous 2006 diplomatic trip to Africa, including a stop at his late father’s homeland near Kisumu, Kenya.

Outreach/Engagement Plan(s)

As with other Kartemquin films, A GOOD MAN will premiere at festivals worldwide before broadcast – for this particular film, on PBS’ American Masters Series. To promote the film, our production partners – Ravinia Festival, American Masters, and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) – will publicize the film on their websites. For example, for each film it supports, ITVS builds an “At-A-Glance” page, which contains a description of the film, a short video preview, production stills, filmmaker bios, a “Talkback” page for viewer comments, and a link to the website for the film itself.

Our production partners’ websites will also link to our extensive website for A GOOD MAN. In addition to text and video, the film’s website will list upcoming screenings, festival showings, and other press events. Our demo for the film has also been posted on YouTube.

After broadcast, the film will be available on home video/DVD through Amazon and Netflix as well as the film’s website and streaming online.

We will work with ITVS and the Company to create an extensive outreach and education campaign, as with other Kartemquin titles. We will partner with Lincoln Historians (and possibly the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Illinois), the Company and its new dance education program at Bard College in New York, headed by former BTJ/AZ dancer Leah Cox, to create materials to educate grammar and high school children about the artistic process, dance choreography, and the biography of Abraham Lincoln placed into this context. The Company also plans to use excerpts from the finished film as part of its nationwide university residencies and community performances of Fondly Do we Hope…Fervently Do We Pray.

One million viewers will see the film through a television broadcast, and we estimate that thousands more will see it through home video, Internet streaming and download, community screenings and civic engagement activities.

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