Steve James
Known for
Directing
Born
March 8, 1958 (age 68)
Birthplace
Hampton, Virginia, USA
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 accepted into the Sundance Film Festival.
He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale,...
Best known work
Heartbeats
2010
Life Itself
2014
Hoop Dreams
1994
Minding the Gap
2018
Prefontaine
1997
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
2017
These Amazing Shadows
2011
The Interrupters
2011
30 for 30
2009
Stevie
2003Filmography
TBA
The Value of WorkDirector
TBA
A Place Called PlutoDirector
2023
The FeatherweightExecutive Producer
2023
2022
A Compassionate SpyDirector, Writer, Editor
2022
Let the Little Light ShineExecutive Producer
2021
MesswoodExecutive Producer
2020
2018
2018
Minding the GapExecutive Producer
2018
The Rescue ListExecutive Producer
2017
Edith+EddieExecutive Producer
2017
Abacus: Small Enough to JailDirector
2015
Life After Hoop DreamsDirector
2014
2014
Life Itselfas Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice), Director, Editor, Producer
2012
2012
Head GamesDirector, Producer
2011
The InterruptersDirector, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
2011
These Amazing Shadowsas Self
2010
Heartbeatsas Party Lover (uncredited)
2010
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iversonas Self / Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
2009
2008
In the FamilyEditorial Consultant
2008
At the Death House DoorDirector