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About This Document: The quote [Gordon Quinn] read at Kartemquin's 45th anniversary celebration was by the great American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey, who brought us progressive education before it was depoliticized, who worked with Jane Addams at Hull-House and who argued that democracy's lifeblood is conversation between people who don't already agree.The gala at Metro was full of testimonials that demonstrated Kartemquin's unique mentoring and communitybuilding role. With help from a MacArthur Foundation grant to transition beyond the founder generation, it continues to train and nurture the film community while looking at the bigger picture. The nonprofit consistently raises its voice on media policy issues. It is a constant advocate for public funding for the arts and since the 1970s has supported cable access TV as a community voice. In the 1980s, Kartemquin was a major voice in indie-filmmaker demands that resulted in public TV's Independent Television Service, now offering "a film festival in your living room." And Kartemquin was a leader in documentarians' creation of the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. (Full disclosure: American University's Center for Social Media, which I founded, helped create this statement.)Tim Horsburgh, who directs Kartemquin's social networking efforts, says that he had to explain Facebook and Twitter to the older folks in the office when he began working there. But once they got it, one of them burst out, "Oh, social networking! That's what we've always done!" Quinn agrees: "We see ourselves as media activists, thinking about the role that media needs to play in a democracy?

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Categories: DocStore > Periodicals > Social Sciences
Tags: In These Times, Nov 2011, Documenting Social Justice, Aufderheide, Patricia, Commentary, Social justice, Documentary films, Democracy, Motion picture industry, United States--US, Kartemquin Films, 512110, Quinn, Gordon

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