Gordon Quinn, a producer and co-founder of Kartemquin Films, the Chicago-based company behind such acclaimed documentaries asHoop DreamsandMinding the Gap, has been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Quinn, 77, was put on a ventilator at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after apparently contracting the virus at the March 1-4 Australian International Documentary Conference in Melbourne, according to a note posted Thursday by friend Jenny Rohrer. "Please pray, wish hard or do whatever you can to bring good health back to this wonderful man," she wrote.
With Quinn as artistic director, Kartemquin was honored with an institutional Peabody Award last year for "its commitment to unflinching documentary.