Justine Nagan | Director

Justine is Kartemquin Films’ executive director. With Kartemquin, she recently directed “Typeface,” a documentary on American typography and graphic design. Formerly she worked as the organization’s director of communications & distribution and as the associatepProducer on Kartemquin’s Peabody Award-winning stem cell documentary “Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita,” which was broadcast nationally on PBS’ Independent Lens in early 2008. Prior to these projects, she helped Kartemquin to develop the series “The Learning Chronicles” while earning her master’s in the humanities with an emphasis on cinema and media studies from the University of Chicago. Other Chicago experience includes teaching at the Hyde Park Art Center as well as working as a theater manager at the Cadillac Palace and Thorne Auditorium for the Chicago International Film Festival, and as a summer fellow for The HistoryMakers, an African-American video oral history archive.

Before moving to Chicago, she produced promotional spots for public television, directed the post-production department for a small media firm and worked for various other companies ranging from M&C Saatchi in Sydney, Australia to Michael Feldman’s “Whad’Ya Know?” on National Public Radio. Justine received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000 in film and journalism. She is an active volunteer in the community for such organizations as The Glass Slipper Project, the Hyde Park Art Center and WTTW. She is currently on the Advisory Board for Midwest Independent Film Festival, has served as the staff representative on Kartemquin’s Board of Directors, as an elected member of the Badger Herald Newspaper’s Board in 1999-2000, and has acted on several other civic and community committees.

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