Steve James (director) of The Interrupters (USA)

Podcast Episode Summary

On this episode, Sue Lawson speaks to award winning documentary filmmaker, Steve James (director, editor, dp and producer) of The Interrupters (USA), 2011 about his brand new feature documentary which is a colloborations with award winning author and journalist, Alex Kotlowitz (There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America).

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three violence interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they themselves once employed within their own communities.