From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Steve James is an American film producer and director of several documentaries including the awardwinning Hoop Dreams and Stevie He is also the director of the 1997 feature film Prefontaine His newest film The Interrupters a portrayal of a year inside the lives of former gang members in Chicago who now intervene in violent conflicts will be released in 2011 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival The film is his sixth feature length collaboration with his longtime filmmaking home the nonprofit Chicago production studio Kartemquin Films and is also his fifth feature to be accepted into the Sundance Film Festival He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale studying with Charles Harpole His work he tells journalist Robert K Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life was strongly influenced by the film Harlan County USA Thereve been many documentaries over the years that have powerfully impacted me I think this one came along at the time when I was more interested in being a feature filmmaker than a documentary filmmaker So it came along at the beginning of a process of moving from an interest in feature film to documentaries and thats where my career has taken me It came along at the right time for me It helped me see Ah this is more what I want to do Steve James also pulls influence from the original definition of the term cinema verite as it applies to the RouchMorin method of filmmaking Just as with Rouch and Morin the people on camera and we in the audience are continually reminded that a film is being made that we are watching a film We are reminded of this through James presence on screen as well as his cinematic editing techniques in order to obtain what he believes is a more accurate depiction of truth Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve James producer licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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