Monday, November 10th, 7:00PM-9:00 PM
South Campus Commons Building 1, Room 1102
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. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling
author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into
the stubborn persistence of violence in our cities.
The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national
symbol for the violence in our cities. During that period, the city was
besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of
Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student,
whose death was caught on videotape.
The
film’s main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire. It
was founded by an epidemiologist, Gary Slutkin, who 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. One of
the cornerstones of the organization is the “Violence Interrupters”
program, created by Tio Hardiman, who heads the program.
The Interrupters — who have credibility on the streets because
of their own personal histories — intervene in conflicts before they
explode into violence.
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