Steve James previous work includes Sundance Award winners Hoop Dreams and Stevie; The Interrupters, which won an Emmy, Independent Spirit Award, and the DuPont Columbia Journalism Award; Emmy winner, Life Itself, named best documentary by The National Board of Review, and The Producers Guild of America; the Peabody winning No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson; and Abacus: Small Enough to Jail earned James a third Emmy and a second Academy Award nomination. His docuseries, America to Me, was one of the most acclaimed TV shows of 2018. His most recent docuseries, City So Real was one of the most acclaimed TV shows of 2020. James is 67, and was born in Hampton, Virginia.