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Nov 17, 2014 · Jerry Blumenthal, founding partner of the Chicago documentary production house Kartemquin Films, passed away on Thursday. He had been involved with the company from the production of its...
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Nov 21, 2014 · The Chicago-born-and-bred Blumenthal, who died Nov. 13 at age 78, is vibrantly alive in the minds of many. “One of the most decent people I have ever met,” says Chicago filmmaker Tom Weinberg,...
Dec 11, 2014 · Jerry Blumenthal, a founding partner of Chicago documentary house Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters), died Nov. 13 after battling cancer. He was 78. “Jerry was my filmmaking partner for over four decades,” said Kartemquin co-founder Gordon Quinn in a statement.
Nov 13, 2014 · Jerry Blumenthal (pictured), a founding partner of Chicago-based doc producer and Life Itself firm Kartemquin Films, has passed away.
Kartemquin Films founding member Jerry Blumenthal passed away in November. From POV's archive, watch an interview with Jerry Blumenthal and his POV documentary, Golub , which we are now ...
The second, co-directed by Gordon Quinn and Jerry Blumenthal, follows a young Palestinian woman who marries a Palestinian-American man and moves to Chicago to be with him. Quinn is Kartemquin's president and the series' co-executive producer; Blumenthal is one of Kartemquin's founders.
Jerry Blumenthal (1936-2014) worked as a maker on a team that made HSA Strike ’75 (Kartemquin, 1975) in Chicago. He was one of the founders of Kartemquin, working with them until his death in 2014. He began as one of the makers of Shulie (1966), the groundbreaking film about Shulamith Firestone.
