FrameThrower · Actors · Steve James
Steve James
5 films · 612 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1984–1989
Born 8 March 1958 · Hampton, Virginia, USA
Steve James is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including the award-winning Hoop Dreams and Stevie. He is also the director of the 1997 feature film Prefontaine. His newest film, The Interrupters, a portrayal of a year inside the lives of former gang members in Chicago who now intervene in violent conflicts, will be released in 2011 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 612 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1984–1989
- Directors Guild of America Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 612 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Steve takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 54% natural — the look of the work Steve takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 612 frames from Steve James's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.