Saugatuck Center For The Arts Presents Real to Reel: The Interruppters

Date: Thursday, February 9, 2012
Start Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Saugatuck Center For The Arts

Category: Saugatuck & Douglas Events

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$5 SCA Members, HAAC Members, and Students
$7 General Admission

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. Shot over the course of a year out of Kartemquin Films, 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.

The Interrupters follows Ameena, Cobe and Eddie as they go about their work, and while doing so reveals their own inspired journeys of hope and redemption. The film attempts to make sense of what CeaseFire’s Tio Hardiman calls, simply, “the madness”.

Sponsored by:

Clark Hill Entertainment Industry Team
Hidden Garden Cottages & Suites
Jon Helmrich & Stephen Mottram

Location Details

Saugatuck Center For The Arts
400 Culver St
Saugatuck MI 49453

Location Phone: 269-857-2399