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It's a rare pleasure to be able to follow up with an interview subject on a given project. I had the pleasure of speaking with documentarian Steve James mere hours after his remarkable film, Life Itself, made its debut....

The mean streets of inner city Chicago are no place to find yourself in a fight, and an even worse place to try to break one up. Yet that's exactly the mission of a small ragtag group of self-proclaimed...

Pretty much anyone who has seen Steve James's (Hoop Dreams) new crime prevention doc at any of its multitude of fest dates (Sundance, SXSW, Seattle to name a few) has fallen in love. It has already secured a spot on...