film

The Interrupters

2011

Completed

Director

Steve James

 

Impact campaign support

Went to Good Pitch

 

Film Details

Runtime: 125 minutes

Format: Feature length film

 

Doc Society Involvement

Docsoc helped with an Impact Campaign

Docsoc helped at Good Pitch

 

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three “violence interrupters” - two men and a woman - who with bravado, humility and even humor try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn, persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year, The Interrupters follows these individuals as they attempt to intervene in disputes before they turn violent: a family where two brothers threaten to shoot each other; an angry teenaged girl just home from prison; a young man on a warpath of a revenge. The film captures not only each interrupters’ work, but reveals their own inspired journeys from crime to hope and redemption.

Outreach Work Supported

Creation of webisodes and Community Resource Guide.

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Reviews

The Interrupters is a heavyweight film about a heavyweight subject of clear interest well beyond the United States.

No concept in the critical lexicon has been more devalued and debased than "inspirational." The term has been so misused, it's just about lost all meaning. A film that makes that word real and vital has to be special. The Interrupters is such a film.

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