About Us
Formed in 1991 as a partnership of Award Winning Producers/Directors Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt, Incite Pictures/Cine Qua Non produces high-profile television documentaries and accompanying engagement campaigns on subjects of social and cultural significance. Cine Qua Non, Inc. has had 501(c)(3) not-for-profit status since 1995. Incite Pictures is the for-profit arm of Cine Qua Non.
“Their fly-on-the-wall approach fulfills one of the glorious promises of documentary – to put us in the middle of situations we otherwise might never be in,” wrote The Washington Post. Their work has been called “balanced and truthful,” “unique and memorable,” and “pure gold,” by, respectively, the New York Times, Hollywood Reporter and The Milwaukee Journal.
They have worked with HBO, PBS, NYT TV, TLC, truTV and the CBC, among others .
FILMOGRAPHY:
The Education of Shelby Knox (2005), launched the PBS’s Point of View, Sundance Winner: Best Cinematography SWSX: Audience Award, Jury Award, Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and many more. Bei Bei (2019), CAAM Film Festival, Asian Cinevision Young Lakota (2013: Best Documentary at Red Nation Film Festival, Best Documentary Cine Las Americas, the Smithsonian Native Cinema Showcase (SWAIA). Previous award winning work includes Live Free or Die (2000), the story of a doctor banned from teaching in his children’s schools because he provides abortions, PBS/Point of View. Fatherhood USA (1998), a three part mini-series that seeks to dispel common stereotypes of fatherhood, and examine how fathers are able to build strong relationships with their children PBS. The Abortion Pill (1997, updated 2022), a history of RU-487, “the moral property of women.” The Trenchcoat Gang, about two bank robbers who stole more money than any other team in U.S. history. Code Blue, New Orleans, a series featuring doctors at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, for The Learning Channel.
In addition to awards specific to their films, they’ve won The Freedom of Expression Award, The Women in Leadership Award, and have been nominated for the British Index on Censorship. Their work has been reviewed and written about in The NYT, Film Comment, NY Magazine, The Washington Post, Indian Country Today, Asian-American News Comment, among others.
Cine Qua Non has received funding from the Sundance Documentary Fund, Catapult, The NEH, various State Arts and Humanities Councils, Chicken and Egg and foundations, including The Ford Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, The Hewlett Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Hewlett Foundation and The Packard Foundation.