Screening Time: Saturday, May 3, 2:30 PM, Charles Theatre 1

Director: Steve James

Cast: Steve James, Stephen Fielding, Tonya Gregory, Bernice Hagler

Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 144 minutes
Format: 35mm

Fueled by an eagerness to help, Steve James became a big brother to a troubled kid in a small southern Illinois town, Stevie. Abandoned by his mother, Stevie bounced from one foster home to another, and he never lost touch with the judicial system. Steve James went on to be a distinguished filmmaker concerned with other kids (the result, Hoop Dreams, is a classic of documentary filmmaking) and he lost track of Stevie. After 10 years, he decided to reconnect with Stevie and this time he wanted to put him on film. The filmmaker was not prepared for what he found, but he kept looking and filming. The result is an unusually revealing film about its subject and the filmmaker.

--Jed Dietz

Presented By: Executive Producer, producer, cinematographer, Gordon Quinn

Gordon Quinn is one of the founders of Kartemquin Films, a Chicago based filmmaking collective whose mission is to make “films that investigate and critique society by following the lives of real people.” Gordon was the executive producer and co-producer of Hoop Dreams, which won numerous awards and was one of the most successful documentary films of all time. His collaborators on that film, Steve James and Peter Gilbert, are both part of the current Kartemquin Films operation. Gordon co-produced and co-directed the award-winning GOLUB, among many other projects. He served on the Board of the National Coalition of Public Broadcast Producers and the Chicago Public Access Corporation.