list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Stevie on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Stevie/216838/default.aspx Title: Stevie
Year: 2003
Director: Steve James
Plot: In the early '80s, Steve James was a student at Southern Illinois University who volunteered for the local Big Brother program and served as a mentor for Stephen Dale Fielding (Stevie for short), a troubled 11-year-old boy with unhappy family relationships. Given up by his mother when her husband decided he didn't want him in the house, Stevie was primarily raised by his step-grandmother and had already begun to reveal a stubborn and easily distracted personality when he met James. After he graduated from college, James lost contact with Fielding, but in 1995, after James had gone on to a career as a documentary filmmaker (and won acclaim for his film Hoop Dreams), he was reintroduced to Stevie, only to learn that his life had taken a number of wrong turns. After a number of scrapes with the law and on-going battles with his family, Fielding had been charged with molesting his eight-year-old cousin, and he'd opted for a trial (which could lead to a twenty year prison sentence) rather than receive counseling, due in part to his experiences in a mental hospital. James and his wife (who counsels sex offenders) wanted to offer Stevie whatever help they could, and James opted to make a film about him, hoping to discover where Stevie's life and gone wrong and how his tragic turn of fate could have been prevented. At the same time, James (like many others in Stevie's life) began to wonder what they could have done, and to what degree they let him down, with James torn between his feelings for his friend and his need to portray all sides honestly. Featuring interviews with Fielding, his family, and his friends, the documentary Stevie examines how society's safety net failed to catch one young man before it was too late. Stevie was shown in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:55:40 GMTStevie2003Steve JamesIn the early '80s, Steve James was a student at Southern Illinois University who volunteered for the local Big Brother program and served as a mentor for Stephen Dale Fielding (Stevie for short), a troubled 11-year-old boy with unhappy family relationships. Given up by his mother when her husband decided he didn't want him in the house, Stevie was primarily raised by his step-grandmother and had already begun to reveal a stubborn and easily distracted personality when he met James. After he graduated from college, James lost contact with Fielding, but in 1995, after James had gone on to a career as a documentary filmmaker (and won acclaim for his film <a href=/films/90856/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Hoop Dreams</a>), he was reintroduced to Stevie, only to learn that his life had taken a number of wrong turns. After a number of scrapes with the law and on-going battles with his family, Fielding had been charged with molesting his eight-year-old cousin, and he'd opted for a trial (which could lead to a twenty year prison sentence) rather than receive counseling, due in part to his experiences in a mental hospital. James and his wife (who counsels sex offenders) wanted to offer Stevie whatever help they could, and James opted to make a film about him, hoping to discover where Stevie's life and gone wrong and how his tragic turn of fate could have been prevented. At the same time, James (like many others in Stevie's life) began to wonder what they could have done, and to what degree they let him down, with James torn between his feelings for his friend and his need to portray all sides honestly. Featuring interviews with Fielding, his family, and his friends, the documentary Stevie examines how society's safety net failed to catch one young man before it was too late. Stevie was shown in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide6Taggedy Taggged (6-10)243http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t33497d8e89.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Stevie/216838/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/14/26215.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) is one of the best documentary filmmakers alive. (Listen to his interview here.) He may be drawn to an issue to start a project but, unlike Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock, he doesn’t investigate issues. He takes on the much greater challenge of showing us a fully rounded human being for whom the issue is a backdrop, one of many. It’s the difference between meeting the poster-child for an issue–say AIDS in Africa–and being that poster-child’s best friend. For At the Death House Door, the issue is the Death Penalty. But the accomplishment is how Steve James and co-director, Peter Gilbert, make us intimate with the complicated life of Reverend Carroll Pickett. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:01:09 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com3/14/2008 2:01:09 PM Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) is one of the best documentary filmmakers alive. (Listen to his interview here.) He may be drawn to an issue to start a project but, unlike Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock, he doesn’t investigate issues. He takes on the much greater challenge of showing us a fully rounded human being for whom the issue is a backdrop, one of many. It’s the difference between meeting the poster-child for an issue–say AIDS in Africa–and being that poster-child’s best friend. For At the Death House Door, the issue is the Death Penalty. But the accomplishment is how Steve James and co-director, Peter Gilbert, make us intimate with the complicated life of Reverend Carroll Pickett. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/3/14/26214.aspx Post By: paul
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Body: Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) is one of the best documentary filmmakers alive. (Listen to his interview here.) He may be drawn to an issue to start a project but, unlike Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock, he doesn’t investigate issues. He takes on the much greater challenge of showing us a fully rounded human being for whom the issue is a backdrop, one of many. It’s the difference between meeting the poster-child for an issue–say AIDS in Africa–and being that poster-child’s best friend. For At the Death House Door, the issue is the Death Penalty. But the accomplishment is how Steve James and co-director, Peter Gilbert, make us intimate with the complicated life of Reverend Carroll Pickett. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul
]]>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:00:57 GMTpaulpaul on spout.com3/14/2008 2:00:57 PM Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) is one of the best documentary filmmakers alive. (Listen to his interview here.) He may be drawn to an issue to start a project but, unlike Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock, he doesn’t investigate issues. He takes on the much greater challenge of showing us a fully rounded human being for whom the issue is a backdrop, one of many. It’s the difference between meeting the poster-child for an issue–say AIDS in Africa–and being that poster-child’s best friend. For At the Death House Door, the issue is the Death Penalty. But the accomplishment is how Steve James and co-director, Peter Gilbert, make us intimate with the complicated life of Reverend Carroll Pickett. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/9/26010.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 3/9/2008 4:00:53 PM
Body: The Reverend Carroll Pickett (whose interview I’ll post later) either fell in or was called to a ministry wherein he walked 95 death row inmates through their final hours and, ultimately, to the gurney where they were executed by lethal injection. He’s a stoic Texan and fascinating man explored in Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) and Peter Gilbert’s new documentary, At the Death House Door. We talk about unwrapping this complicated minister and whether or not they planted a bottle of wine at the family dinner where Rev. Pickett’s children interrogate him about his job. SXSW 2008 interview: Steve James and Peter Gilbert At the Death House Door SXSW news, reviews, interviews and discussions Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:00:53 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com3/9/2008 4:00:53 PMThe Reverend Carroll Pickett (whose interview I’ll post later) either fell in or was called to a ministry wherein he walked 95 death row inmates through their final hours and, ultimately, to the gurney where they were executed by lethal injection. He’s a stoic Texan and fascinating man explored in Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) and Peter Gilbert’s new documentary, At the Death House Door. We talk about unwrapping this complicated minister and whether or not they planted a bottle of wine at the family dinner where Rev. Pickett’s children interrogate him about his job. SXSW 2008 interview: Steve James and Peter Gilbert At the Death House Door SXSW news, reviews, interviews and discussions Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/3/9/26008.aspx Post By: paul
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Body: The Reverend Carroll Pickett (whose interview I’ll post later) either fell in or was called to a ministry wherein he walked 95 death row inmates through their final hours and, ultimately, to the gurney where they were executed by lethal injection. He’s a stoic Texan and fascinating man explored in Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) and Peter Gilbert’s new documentary, At the Death House Door. We talk about unwrapping this complicated minister and whether or not they planted a bottle of wine at the family dinner where Rev. Pickett’s children interrogate him about his job. SXSW 2008 interview: Steve James and Peter Gilbert At the Death House Door SXSW news, reviews, interviews and discussions Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul
]]>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:00:35 GMTpaulpaul on spout.com3/9/2008 4:00:35 PMThe Reverend Carroll Pickett (whose interview I’ll post later) either fell in or was called to a ministry wherein he walked 95 death row inmates through their final hours and, ultimately, to the gurney where they were executed by lethal injection. He’s a stoic Texan and fascinating man explored in Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) and Peter Gilbert’s new documentary, At the Death House Door. We talk about unwrapping this complicated minister and whether or not they planted a bottle of wine at the family dinner where Rev. Pickett’s children interrogate him about his job. SXSW 2008 interview: Steve James and Peter Gilbert At the Death House Door SXSW news, reviews, interviews and discussions Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/friendship/MemberTagFilms.aspxfriendship
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