Aaron Wickenden (Co-Director/Producer) is a filmmaker with extensive experience as an editor and cinematographer. His recent accomplishments include: Editing and Additional Cinematography for the 2014 hit Finding Vivian Maier, which premiered at the prestigious Toronto International Film Fest, won Best Doc at Miami International and is currently selling out movie theaters throughout the US. In 2013, Aaron received an Emmy® Award nomination for co-editing The Interrupters. Aaron’s editing credits include: The Trials of Muhammad Ali, Scrappers, and At The Death House Door.
Dan Rybicky (Co-Director/Producer) is an artist and teacher whose photographs, installations, and plays have been seen in venues throughout New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. After receiving his MFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Dan began working with and consulting in various production capacities for filmmakers Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, and John Leguizamo. Dan is currently an Associate Professor in Cinema Art + Science at Columbia College Chicago where he designs and teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses.
Our production company Kartemquin Films has been making documentaries for the past 48 years that examine and critique society, and Almost There continues Kartemquin’s tradition of using film as a vehicle to deepen our understanding of society through everyday human drama. The organization is best known for 1995′s seminal masterpiece Hoop Dreams, but it has also produced award-winning work on the visual arts, including A Good Man, a profile of choreographer Bill T. Jones for PBS’ 2011 American Masters series, and Golub, a profile of the late painter Leon Golub. In reviewing the latter film, critic Jonathan Rosenbaum writes: “Golub conveys the exhilarating sense that art is inseparable from both the world that engenders it and the world that receives it.” It is in this spirit that we bring you Almost There.
More information about other members of our team can be found on Kartemquin’s website.
