Steve James
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday8 March 1958 (68 years old)
Place of birthHampton, Virginia, USA
Known credits36
Biography
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 acc…
The Featherweight
2023 · Executive Producer
The Luckiest Guy in the World
2023 · Producer
The Luckiest Guy in the World
2023 · Editor
The Luckiest Guy in the World
2023 · Director
A Compassionate Spy
2022 · Director
A Compassionate Spy
2022 · Writer
A Compassionate Spy
2022 · Editor
Let the Little Light Shine
2022 · Executive Producer
Messwood
2021 · Executive Producer
City So Real
2020 · Director
City So Real
2020 · Producer
America to Me
2018 · Director
America to Me
2018 · Executive Producer
America to Me
2018 · Cinematography
Minding the Gap
2018 · Executive Producer
The Rescue List
2018 · Executive Producer
Edith+Eddie
2017 · Executive Producer
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
2017 · Director
Life After Hoop Dreams
2015 · Director
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
2014 · Director
Life Itself
2014 · Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Life Itself
2014 · Director
Life Itself
2014 · Editor
Life Itself
2014 · Producer
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012 · Director
Head Games
2012 · Director
Head Games
2012 · Producer
The Interrupters
2011 · Director
The Interrupters
2011 · Producer
The Interrupters
2011 · Editor
The Interrupters
2011 · Cinematography
These Amazing Shadows
2011 · Self
Heartbeats
2010 · Party Lover (uncredited)
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
2010 · Self / Narrator (voice)
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
2010 · Director
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
2010 · Writer
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
2010 · Producer
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
2010 · Editor
30 for 30
2009 · Director
In the Family
2008 · Editorial Consultant
At the Death House Door
2008 · Director
Reel Paradise
2005 · Director
Reel Paradise
2005 · Editor
Reel Paradise
2005 · Producer
The New Americans
2003 · Director
Stevie
2003 · Self
Stevie
2003 · Director
Joe and Max
2002 · Director
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