STEVE JAMES – Director, Producer, Editor
Steve James is best known as the producer-director of Hoop Dreams, winner of every major critic’s prize of 1994, as well as the Directors Guild of America Award, and the Peabody and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. Hoop Dreams was also named to the Library of Congress National Film Registry. Other award-winning films include Stevie, which won numerous festivals and landed on a dozen ten best lists for 2003; the miniseries The New Americans, winner of the 2004 IDA Award for The Best Limited Series; At the Death House Door, which won numerous awards at festivals and was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award; and No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson for ESPN’s Peabody and IDA award-winning “30 for 30” series. James’ 2011 film, The Interrupters, was his fifth to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, won more than a dozen awards on the festival circuit including the top prize at the Sheffield Film Festival. It took the two top Cinema Eye Awards and won the Independent Spirit Award. The Interrupters was named “Best Documentary of the year” in both the IndieWire and Village Voice national critics’ polls. Recently, it was awarded the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award and an Emmy.
