The filmmakers behind "Minding the Gap" look at how the ongoing tragedy of gun violence has shaped generations in Chicago and those looking to break the cycle.
A staggering chronicle of young men and their derelict or abusive fathers that somehow manages to capture the cycle repeating itself — and being broken — in real time.
The "Hoop Dreams" director talks about the formal challenge of making his first series and what he learned from spending a year at Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School.
The director talks about how making skate videos prepared the filmmaker for a masterful verité look at two young men from Rockford, Illinois whose past continues to shape their future.
