Toronto Film Festival – Official Selection
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival – Grand Jury Joris Ivens Prize
Sundance Film Festival, 2003 – Excellence in Cinematography Award (Documentary)
Sundance Film Festival, 2003 – Nominee, Grand Jury Prize
Independent Spirit Awards, 2003 – Nominee, Best Documentary
Yamagata Film Festival, 2003 – Mayor’s Prize
Philadelphia International Film Festival, 2003 – Best Documentary Feature
Shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary
South by Southwest – Official Selection
Portland International Film Festival – Official Selection
Cleveland International Film Festival – Official Selection
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival – Official Selection
Santa Barbara International Film Festival – Official Selection
Aired Internationally on:
- NHK (Japan)
- CBC (Canada)
- VPRO (Netherlands)
- BBC
- HBO Latin America
- Docuzone (Netherlands)
In 1995, filmmaker Steve James returns to Pomona, a beautiful rural hamlet in Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, for whom James once served as an advocate Big Brother. He finds that the once difficult, awkward child has become – ten years later – an angry and troubled young man. Part way through filming, Stevie is arrested and charged with a serious crime. He confesses to the crime and then later recants. The filmmaker himself is drawn into the film as he tries to sort out his own feelings, past and present, about Stevie and how to deal with him in the wake of his arrest. What was to be a modest profile of Stevie, turns into an intimate four and a half year chronicle of a dysfunctional family’s struggle to heal.
Stevie is a Kartemquin Films production in association with SenArt Films.