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Steve James is recognized as one of the most acclaimed documentary filmmakers of his generation. His film "Hoop Dreams" was nominated for an Academy Award ® for Best Film Editing and recently selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry. James' "Stevie" (2002) -- winner of the Sundance Film Festival Cinematography Award and IDFA Grand Jury Prize; the Independent Documentary Association Award-winning miniseries The New Americans; Tribeca Film Festival Grand Prize winner "The War Tapes" (2006), which James produced and edited; "At the Death House Door" (2008), co-directed with Peter Gilbert; "No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson" (2010) -- for ESPN's Peabody winning 30 for 30 series; and "The Interrupters" (2011) -- which won an Emmy, Independent Spirit Award, and the DuPont Columbia Journalism Award. James' "Life Itself" (2014) was named the best documentary of the year by over a dozen critics associations, Rotten Tomatoes, the Critics' Choice Awards, the National Board of Review, and the Producers Guild of America and was nominated for Emmy awards. James has also directed "Prefontaine" (1997) and numerous other documentaries and short films throughout his career.  His current projects include "Generation Food," with author Raj Patel that looks at solutions to fixing the broken global food system, and To Bridge the Divide, a series that follows the stories of a dozen students grappling with how to address what is commonly called a "racial achievement gap."