The Interrupters - 2011 - independent documentary

The Interrupters - 2011
This four plus minute clip completely captured my attention.


The Interrupters - 2011 - Directed by Steve James (director of Hoop Dreams)
It looks like a compelling documentary on the still rough streets of America. There's a lot of information at the films website:
www.interrupters.kartemquin.com
From the site:
"The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed."

"The film’s main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire, which believes that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should be similar: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. The singular mission of the “Violence Interrupters” — who have credibility on the streets because of their own personal histories — is to intervene in conflicts before they explode into violence."

"Kartemquin Films intends to develop a national outreach campaign that builds on the exposure from the film’s appearance at Sundance and will continue through the 2011 television broadcast and beyond. The Interrupters Community Engagement Campaign will use the documentary as the centerpiece of a two-year effort to engage audiences and communities in reflection, discussion and action around the structural causes of street violence, and creative approaches for interrupting the cycle of retaliatory violence."