IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

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      Steve James

      American Steve JAMES is known as a director/producer, principally for his documentary Hoop Dreams, which in 1994 won all the big critics’ prizes as well as the Directors’ Guild of America Award and the Peabody and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Other internationally lauded documentaries by James are Stevie (2002), At the Death House Door (2008) and The Interrupters (2011). 2015 marks his first visit to IFFR with Life Itself.

      Filmography

      Stop Substance Abuse (1986, doc), Grassroots Chicago (1991, short doc), Higher Goals (1993, short doc), Hoop Dreams (1994, doc), Prefontaine (1997), Passing Glory (1999, TV), Joe and Max (2002, TV), Stevie (2002, doc), Independent Lens (2004, doc), Reel Paradise (2005, doc), At the Death House Door (2008, doc), 30 for 30 (2010, doc series), The Interrupters (2011, doc), The Music Man (2012, short doc), Frontline (2012, doc), Head Games (2012, doc), Life Itself (2014, doc), A Place Called Pluto (2014, short doc), We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss (2014, doc)

      Steve James at IFFR