Congratulations to Director/Producer Steve James and Producer Alex Kotlowitz and their whole team at Kartemquin Films on winning best documentary at last night’s Independent Spirit Awards. The ...

Hoop Dreams director Steve James’ documentary about violence prevention in inner-city Chicago, The Interrupters, has received stellar reviews since its Sundance debut, including our own. A few ...

During one weekend in 2008, 37 people were shot in Chicago, seven of them fatally. It was the year Chicago became a posterchild city of America’s gang problem. The Interrupters, which is being shown ...

I don’t get to vote on the Nobel Peace Prize, but my imaginary vote would go to the Violence Interrupters, the real-life “stars” of the documentary “The Interrupters.” They’re on-the-street social ...

Ricardo “Cobe” Williams isn’t shy about admitting his troubled past. “For most of my life, I was part of the problem,” Williams told a group of students in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities ...

Overwhelming undertaking profiles a courageous group of Chicago activists who intervene in street fights and then coach the scrappers in conflict resolution. The “violence interrupters” are members of ...

On Wednesday night the Cinema Eye honors recognized the likes of Steve James’ “The Interrupters” (Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking and Direction), the late Tim Hetherington’s short ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman in a headscarf runs into the street to calm a crowd before violence erupts. "This is what a war zone looks like," a voiceover declares. But the "war zone" in the new ...

The Interrupters (The Cinema Guild), a documentary about an initiative to stop urban violence in Chicago, may be the most necessary film you’ll see this year. But if you go to the movies in search of ...

“Hoop Dreams” is one of the great populist documentaries of all time, a movie that worked as absorbing narrative and important social commentary, and while I like the subsequent films that Steve James ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The last time “The Interrupters” director Steve James attended the Spirit Awards, for his 2002 documentary “Stevie,” its distributor, Lionsgate, flew him from Chicago to Los ...