“Suddenly It Was a Free-for-All”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With Steve James About ‘City So Real’
Steve Chagollan
On the surface,
City So Real, the latest documentary from Steve James and the Chicago-based collective Kartemquin Films, is about the 2019 Chicago mayoral election. But in typical fashion, James (
Hoop Dreams) digs deep, exploring the city neighborhood by neighborhood, from the penthouse suites to the ground-level nail salons.
In his review,
THR’s Daniel Fienberg called it “another gripping topical smorgasbord from James,” and recently spoke to the multihyphenate filmmaker as well as the five-part documentary’s producer and sound recordist, Zak Piper, and one of the series’ subjects, mayoral candidate Amara Enyia, for