Steve James
Nacimiento : 1958-03-08, Hampton, Virginia, USA
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Steve James is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including the award-winning 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 long-time filmmaking home, the non-profit 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.
There’ve 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 that’s 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 Rouch/Morin 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.
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Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, to create a bomb before the Germans did, Ted Hall didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Increasingly concerned during 1944—with Germany clearly losing the war—that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon after the war could lead to nuclear catastrophe, he decided beginning that October to start passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union. After the war, at the University of Chicago, he met and married Joan, a fellow student with whom he shared a passion for classical music and socialist causes — and the explosive secret of his espionage. Living under a cloud of suspicion and years of FBI surveillance and intimidation, the pair raised a family while Ted refocused his scientific brilliance on groundbreaking bio-physics research.
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Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, to create a bomb before the Germans did, Ted Hall didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Increasingly concerned during 1944—with Germany clearly losing the war—that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon after the war could lead to nuclear catastrophe, he decided beginning that October to start passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union. After the war, at the University of Chicago, he met and married Joan, a fellow student with whom he shared a passion for classical music and socialist causes — and the explosive secret of his espionage. Living under a cloud of suspicion and years of FBI surveillance and intimidation, the pair raised a family while Ted refocused his scientific brilliance on groundbreaking bio-physics research.
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Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, to create a bomb before the Germans did, Ted Hall didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Increasingly concerned during 1944—with Germany clearly losing the war—that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon after the war could lead to nuclear catastrophe, he decided beginning that October to start passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union. After the war, at the University of Chicago, he met and married Joan, a fellow student with whom he shared a passion for classical music and socialist causes — and the explosive secret of his espionage. Living under a cloud of suspicion and years of FBI surveillance and intimidation, the pair raised a family while Ted refocused his scientific brilliance on groundbreaking bio-physics research.
Executive Producer
When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s wealthier residents, parents, students and educators fight for the elementary school’s survival.
Executive Producer
Declining participation leads two Milwaukee area high schools—one black and urban, the other white and suburban—to combine their football programs. Tensions rise as the disparities between the two schools become increasingly apparent over the course of the season. At the center of the drama, the teenage athletes attempt to make sense of their adolescence in the face of the racial fissures in their community.
Executive Producer
Tres jóvenes se unen para escapar de sus volátiles familias en su ciudad natal de Rust Belt. A medida que se enfrentan a responsabilidades adultas, la amistad de una década se ve amenazada por inesperadas revelaciones a través de las cuales exploran todo tipo de injusticias sociales
Executive Producer
Two boys escape from slavery, spend a year in a rehabilitation shelter, and eventually reunite with their families. Meanwhile, the man who rescued them launches another mission to liberate more children.
Executive Producer
Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their unusual and idyllic love story is threatened by a family feud that triggers a devastating abuse of the legal guardianship system.
Director
Una pequeña institución financiera llamada Abacus se convierte en la única compañía acusada criminalmente por los sucesos de la crisis hipotecaria de Estados Unidos de 2008
Director
This forty-minute program was produced by the Criterion Collection in 2014
Director
Everyone’s talking about it, but who can explain it? Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions and Morgan Spurlock’s Cinelan have partnered to produce WE THE ECONOMY 20 Short Films You Can’t Afford to Miss. Each film is helmed by an acclaimed filmmaker, each with their own creative vision. The series aims to drive awareness and establish a better understanding of the U.S. economy. Told through animation, comedy, musical, non-fiction, and scripted films, WE THE ECONOMY seeks to demystify a complicated topic while empowering the public to take control of their own economic futures.
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
La sorprendente y entretenida vida del célebre crítico de cine y comentarista social Roger Ebert (1942-2013): sus primeros días como un despreocupado soltero y ganador del Premio Pulitzer; su célebre y polémica asociación con Gene Siskel; su matrimonio, que cambió su vida; y su valiente y trascendental batalla contra el cáncer.
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La sorprendente y entretenida vida del célebre crítico de cine y comentarista social Roger Ebert (1942-2013): sus primeros días como un despreocupado soltero y ganador del Premio Pulitzer; su célebre y polémica asociación con Gene Siskel; su matrimonio, que cambió su vida; y su valiente y trascendental batalla contra el cáncer.
Producer
La sorprendente y entretenida vida del célebre crítico de cine y comentarista social Roger Ebert (1942-2013): sus primeros días como un despreocupado soltero y ganador del Premio Pulitzer; su célebre y polémica asociación con Gene Siskel; su matrimonio, que cambió su vida; y su valiente y trascendental batalla contra el cáncer.
Director
La sorprendente y entretenida vida del célebre crítico de cine y comentarista social Roger Ebert (1942-2013): sus primeros días como un despreocupado soltero y ganador del Premio Pulitzer; su célebre y polémica asociación con Gene Siskel; su matrimonio, que cambió su vida; y su valiente y trascendental batalla contra el cáncer.
Producer
Former football player and wrestler Chris Nowinski's quest to publicize recent findings about the often dire consequences of head concussions sustained by athletes in contact sports — injuries that have previously been considered momentary setbacks and ignored in the name of toughness and dedication to the team.
Director
Former football player and wrestler Chris Nowinski's quest to publicize recent findings about the often dire consequences of head concussions sustained by athletes in contact sports — injuries that have previously been considered momentary setbacks and ignored in the name of toughness and dedication to the team.
Editor
The Violence Interrupters es un grupo de ex-pandilleros de Chicago que han decidido combatir la violencia en la que ellos mismos estuvieron involucrados, y que han demostrado ser mucho más eficientes que los cuerpos policiacos. El director Steve James se dedicó a seguir a algunos de estos jóvenes, haciendo una bitácora de sus acciones, de lo que resultó el documental The Interrupters. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cinematography
The Violence Interrupters es un grupo de ex-pandilleros de Chicago que han decidido combatir la violencia en la que ellos mismos estuvieron involucrados, y que han demostrado ser mucho más eficientes que los cuerpos policiacos. El director Steve James se dedicó a seguir a algunos de estos jóvenes, haciendo una bitácora de sus acciones, de lo que resultó el documental The Interrupters. (FILMAFFINITY)
Producer
The Violence Interrupters es un grupo de ex-pandilleros de Chicago que han decidido combatir la violencia en la que ellos mismos estuvieron involucrados, y que han demostrado ser mucho más eficientes que los cuerpos policiacos. El director Steve James se dedicó a seguir a algunos de estos jóvenes, haciendo una bitácora de sus acciones, de lo que resultó el documental The Interrupters. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
The Violence Interrupters es un grupo de ex-pandilleros de Chicago que han decidido combatir la violencia en la que ellos mismos estuvieron involucrados, y que han demostrado ser mucho más eficientes que los cuerpos policiacos. El director Steve James se dedicó a seguir a algunos de estos jóvenes, haciendo una bitácora de sus acciones, de lo que resultó el documental The Interrupters. (FILMAFFINITY)
Self
¿Qué tienen en común películas como Casablanca, El Padrino y West Side Story? Además de su popularidad, han sido consideradas “significativas desde un punto de vista cultural, histórico o estético” por la Biblioteca del Congreso de los Estados Unidos y catalogadas en el Registro Nacional de Cinematografía, un listado de los tesoros del cine norteamericano que refleja la diversidad de las películas, y por lo tanto de la misma experiencia de Norteamérica. Cada año se añaden 25 películas al Registro. La lista actual de 525 películas incluye títulos de todas las categorías: documentales, clásicos de Hollywood, cine de vanguardia, cortos y cine mudo. El documental These Amazing Shadows es un detallado dossier de la rica y extensa filmografía estadounidense, no sólo desde un punto de vista cinéfilo, sino también cultural y humano.
Amateur de fête (uncredited)
En Montreal, tres amigos íntimos se ven involucrados en un triángulo amoroso. Marie (Monia Chokri) y Francis (Xavier Dolan) conocen un día a Nick (Niels Schneider), un chico recién llegado del campo. Pronto empieza a surgir entre ellos un vínculo sentimental.
Editor
Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.
Director
Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.
Editorial Consultant
At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed with a genetic test result that leaves her vulnerable and confused, she balances dreams of having her own children with the unnerving reality that she is risking her life by holding on to her fertility.
Director
An investigation of the wrongful death of Carlos DeLuna, who was executed in Texas on December 7, 1989, after prosecutors ignored evidence inculpating a man, who bragged to friends about committing the crimes of which DeLuna was convicted.
Director
Former indie film "guru" John Pierson takes his family to Fiji for one year to run the world's most remote movie theater.
Director
The New Americans follows a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new Americans in the 21st century.
Himself
In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an 'Advocate Big Brother' to ten years earlier.
Director
In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an 'Advocate Big Brother' to ten years earlier.
Director
Entre 1930 y 1940 la rivalidad entre Joe Louis (Leonard Roberts) y Max Schmeling (Til Schweiger) fue una de las más grandes en la historia del boxeo profesional. Louis fue uno de los primeros afroamericanos en ganar en su categoría, convirtiéndose en un símbolo de esperanza para su gente. Por su parte, Schmeling fue un alemán a quienes muchos nazis consideraban un ejemplo de la innata superioridad de la raza aria. Sin embargo, lo que pocos saben es que pese a su fiera rivalidad en el cuadrilátero, Louis y Schmeling fueron buenos amigos, menos aún que Schmeling no fue nunca miembro del partido Nazi, y que contribuyó a salvar la vida de numerosos judíos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Además, tras la guerra, cuando Schmeling se enteró de los malos momentos que su antiguo rival estaba pasando, buscó a su compañero de peleas para ayudarle.
Director
A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team in the 1960's. Eventually events like these signaled the pivotal turn in the games' history leading to the integration in today's sport. Directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), these basketball players didn't just make shots, they made history.
Screenplay
It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit captured the heart of the nation! Cocky, charismatic, and tough, "Pre" was a running rebel who defied rules, pushed limits ... and smashed records ...
Director
It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit captured the heart of the nation! Cocky, charismatic, and tough, "Pre" was a running rebel who defied rules, pushed limits ... and smashed records ...
Editor
Retrata las vidas de dos chicos afroamericanos y sus esfuerzos para ser jugadores de baloncesto en la universidad, y así poder llegar a ser profesionales de la NBA.
Producer
Retrata las vidas de dos chicos afroamericanos y sus esfuerzos para ser jugadores de baloncesto en la universidad, y así poder llegar a ser profesionales de la NBA.
Narrator
Retrata las vidas de dos chicos afroamericanos y sus esfuerzos para ser jugadores de baloncesto en la universidad, y así poder llegar a ser profesionales de la NBA.
Writer
Retrata las vidas de dos chicos afroamericanos y sus esfuerzos para ser jugadores de baloncesto en la universidad, y así poder llegar a ser profesionales de la NBA.
Director
Retrata las vidas de dos chicos afroamericanos y sus esfuerzos para ser jugadores de baloncesto en la universidad, y así poder llegar a ser profesionales de la NBA.
Producer
An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages young athletes to put their dreams of professional sports in perspective and focus on getting an education.
Editor
An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages young athletes to put their dreams of professional sports in perspective and focus on getting an education.
Writer
An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages young athletes to put their dreams of professional sports in perspective and focus on getting an education.
Director
An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages young athletes to put their dreams of professional sports in perspective and focus on getting an education.
Director
A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes on community organizing in different Chicago neighborhoods: LeClaire Courts, Marquette Park, Roseland, Pilsen, Uptown, Rogers Park and Garfield Park.
Executive Producer
The true life story of world champion Willie Pep, the fighter with the most wins in professional boxing and his long-shot journey out of retirement and back into the ring.
