Steve James

director, “America to Me”

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Steve James was born in Hampton, Virginia, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Hoop Dreams (1994), Stevie (2002), The Interrupters (2011), and America to ME (2018).

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The series “America to Me” puts viewers inside a public school in suburban Chicago for a year.

Despite the best intentions, suburban Chicago high school can’t bridge racial divides

The series “America to Me” puts viewers inside a public school in suburban Chicago for a year.

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In the wake of the mortgage crisis and great recession, the government bailed out big banks, but one small bank was not so lucky.

How one Chinatown bank was 'small enough to jail'

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Filmmaker Steve James and Chaz Ebert tell Kim Masters about the journey of adapting Roger Ebert’s memoir, ‘Life Itself’ to a documentary.

‘Life Itself’

Filmmaker Steve James and Chaz Ebert tell Kim Masters about the journey of adapting Roger Ebert’s memoir, ‘Life Itself’ to a documentary.

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