Steve James (born March 8, 1954) is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including the award-winning Hoop Dreams and Stevie. Steve James' STEVIE now on Netflix., Kartemquin is building on more than 50 years of history as Chicago’s documentary. Get film updates and special. 'Stevie,' the latest documentary by one of the modern masters of the form, Steve James of Chicago's Kartemquin Films, is a film so troubling and. Steve James (born March 8, 1954) is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including the award-winning Hoop Dreams and Stevie.

He began a film, a search, to discover not only what had happened to Stevie over the past ten years but to understand the forces that had shaped his entire life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested and charged with a serious crime that tears his family apart. What was to be a modest profile turns into a intimate four and half year chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the criminal justice system and the filmmaker himself, as they all struggle with what Stevie has done and who he has become. 'There but by the Grace of God go I'. Stevie never had a chance. Doepfer Dark Energy Patch Sheet For Lighting here. at least not at first with his birth mother. It all starts in the womb.