11:00am screening & 7:00pm screening – please select the time you wish to attend when purchasing tickets.
Q&A with Producer and Lake Forest resident Diane Quon after the 7:00pm screening!
Compiling over 12 years of footage shot in his hometown of Rockford, IL, in MINDING THE GAP, Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends’ turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity. As the film unfolds, Bing captures 23-year-old Zack’s tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend deteriorate after the birth of their son and 17-year-old Keire struggling with his racial identity as he faces new responsibilities following the death of his father. While navigating a difficult relationship between his camera, his friends, and his own past, Bing ultimately weaves a story of generational forgiveness while exploring the precarious gap between childhood and adulthood.
A co-production between Kartemquin Films, ITVS, POV and the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program.
Winner of the Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking at Sundance Film Festival 2018. See below for other awards & distinctions.
11:00am screening & 7:00pm screening
Q&A with Producer and Lake Forest resident Diane Quon after the 7:00pm screening!
Diane Moy Quon
Diane worked in LA for over 17 years before moving back to her hometown of Chicago. While in LA, Diane had a successful career at NBC and at Paramount Pictures where she was last the Vice President of Marketing.
Since early 2015, Diane has been working on multiple documentaries with Kartemquin Films. Diane is the producer of the upcoming documentary Minding the Gap, directed by first-time filmmaker Bing Liu, currently in post-production. She is also producing Left-Handed Pianist along with Howard Reich and Gordon Quinn, as well as The Dilemma of Desire with Peabody Award-winning director Maria Finitzo. Both films are in production. She has also developed the marketing and outreach strategy for Unbroken Glass and In the Game.
Diane is a 2017 Film Independent Fellow and is currently developing a fiction film based on a New York Times best-selling book.
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MINDING THE GAP — AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS:
World Premiere – US Documentary Competition
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Best Film Unipol Award
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF BIOGRAFILM FESTIVAL
2018
Best Film Unipol Award
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF BIOGRAFILM FESTIVAL
2018
Nominee: New Talent Award
SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST
2018
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR BRAVERY
2018
Bydgoszcz ART.DOC Award
DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Audience Award
DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Best Director: Non-Fiction Feature
LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Audience Choice Award
MOUNTAINFILM FESTIVAL
2018
Best Documentary Feature
MOUNTAINFILM FESTIVAL
2018
Best Documentary Feature
RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Audience Award Best Documentary Feature
FULL FRAME DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Doc Audience Award
SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST
2018
New Talent Award
SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST
2018
Official Selection
BAM CINEMAFEST
2018
Official Selection
NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Grand Prix Award
DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Documentary Competition Winner
CAAMFEST
2018
Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming
DOXA DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Audience Award
LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Official Selection
VINO VÉRITÉ
2018
Official Selection
DOCLANDS
2018
Honorable Mention: Best Documentary
NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Official Selection
CINEYOUTH FESTIVAL – CINEMA/CHICAGO
2018
Best Documentary Feature: Grand Jury Prize
NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Official Selection
23RD CHICAGO ASIAN AMERICAN SHOWCASE
2018
Official Selection
ONE TAKE FILM FEST
2018
Top Audience Pick: World Showcase Program
HOT DOCS
2018
Best Documentary Feature
RIVERRUN FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Winner – Best Documentary Feature
MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Winner – Best Documentary Feature
SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Winner – Documentary Feature Editing
ASHLAND INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Spring Showcase Audience Award
SAN DIEGO ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Official Selection
FREEP FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Official Selection
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Winner – Spotlight Film Award
MOSAIC WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award – Honorable Mention
FULL FRAME DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Audience Award – Feature
FULL FRAME DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Official Selection
WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Official Selection
SFFILM FESTIVAL
2018
Official Selection
ACT. HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Official Selection
MARTHA’S VINEYARD FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Official Selection
DOC 10
2018
Official Selection
SALEM FILM FEST
2018
One in a Million Award
SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
2018
International Premiere – Next:Wave Competition
CPH:DOX
2018
Official Selection
BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
2018
Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking
2018 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL – US DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
2018
If you have any questions please contact Special Events & Film Director, Jamie Hall at jamie@gortoncenter.org
