Steve James

Director

Biography

Steve James is the director of the acclaimed film Hoop Dreams, which won the Documentary Audience Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win multiple major critics’ prizes and an Academy Award nomination for best editing; Stevie, which won the Documentary Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival; and At the Death House Door, which won numerous festival awards. James has just completed No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson for the acclaimed ESPN series 30 for 30. –Sundance

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Malik

12Apr12

Steve James is one of the, unfortunately, few white directors that can go into another's culture and not make his subjects exotic or simplify them into caricatures instead opting to let the people tell their own stories and letting them bare their own humanity.