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Activism and community service
Kuttner was a founding member of the Chicago New Left activist group Rise Up Angry, where he wrote film reviews for the organizations newspaper, where he took a break from filmmaking. There, he wrote film reviews for the organization’s newspaper and helped organize their citywide free clinic. They worked alongside the Peace movement, Black Power movement, and Women's liberation movement.

He also spent time working with Upward Bound, a college prep program for students from disadvantaged areas. He has also worked on the boards of the Community TV Network and Community Film Workshop, both established media programs for Chicago youth.

Kartemquin
Kuttner started working with Kartemquin in 1968, and joined officially in 1972 after he got a call from Gordon Quinn. At Kartemquin, his films covered topics ranging from gentrification to funding cuts of home-birth organizations. During his time there he worked on the films Hum 255, Trick Bag, and Now We Live on Clifton, and the Chicago Maternity Center Story (1976).

[copied from Peter Kuttner]