Gordon Quinn

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Gordon Quinn (born 1942 in Washington, DC) is the artistic director and a founding member of Kartemquin Films. He received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2007. Quinn has been making documentaries for more than four decades and has produced or directed more than 30 films.

His recent directing work includes Prisoner of Her Past and A Good Man. His producing credits include Hoop Dreams; In the Family; Vietnam, Long Time Coming; Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes; 5 Girls; Refrigerator Mothers; and Stevie.

Lately, he executive produced Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita and The New Americans, and he directed the Palestinian segment for The New Americans. He is currently executive producing several new Kartemquin projects.

Quinn has long supported public media and independent community media groups. He has 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.