Kartemquin’s co-founder and artistic director Gordon Quinn writes to a friend about Marco, Thumbs Down and Inquiring Nuns, the last of which followed in the mold of Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s Chronique d’un été.
Director Steve James (‘The Interrupters,’ ‘Hoop Dreams’)
Sound On Sight Podcast #293
Hoop Dreams might very well be the most acclaimed documentary of the 1990s, but its co-director, Chicago-based documentarian Steve James, has continued to create distinctive, relevant films in the near-20 year interval since that film’s release. His latest, The Interrupters, screened at Cinema Politica here in Montreal and so impressed the SOSers who witnessed it that we made sure to request a screener, with the express purpose of putting a James spotlight together – and now, with the help of special guests Derek Gladu and Michael Waldman, we finally got ‘er done. (Special thanks to Kartemquin.)
FILMS: Hoop Dreams, Stevie, At the Death House Door, No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson, The Interrupters
Kartemquin’s co-founder and artistic director, Gordon Quinn, discusses Camera # 1- used to shoot Home For Life, Thumbs Down, Marco and Parents
For the Steve James fans out there: check out his Focus Forward 3min short “The Music Man,” about Ge Wang, the first man to transform the iPhone into a musical instrument.
Diverse Voices in Docs, Kartemquin’s new professional development and mentorship program for emerging documentary filmmakers of color, launches at the Community Film Workshop of Chicago
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