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Oscar Week: Steve James on ‘Abacus: Small Enough to Jail’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 28, 2018 - 9:38amCHICAGO – Oscar Week is upon us, and Chicago is represented with a nomination in the Best Documentary (Feature) category at the 90th Academy Awards on March 4th, 2018. “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail” is directed by Steve James of Chicago’s Kartemquin Films, and is one of five nominees for the prestigious award.
Interview, Audio: Documentary Director Steve James on ‘Abacus: Small Enough to Jail’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 15, 2017 - 9:09pmCHICAGO – The documentary maker Steve James, one of the best in the history of cinema, has a resume of quality reporting through feature film that is stunning in its context. The director of “Hoop Dreams,” “Stevie,” “The Interrupters,” “Head Games” and the Roger Ebert biography “Life Itself” has a new doc, focusing on one repercussion of the financial crisis of 2008, subtly entitled “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.
