City So Real

Editor (with Steve James)

Directed by Steve James
Television Series: 338 minutes, 2020

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Steve James’ fascinating and complex portrait of contemporary Chicago delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of a quitessentially American city. From its history-making 2019 mayoral election, to the tumultuous 2020 summer of COVID-19 and social upheaval following George Floyd’s death, City So Real distills the authentic beauty of the city that Nelson Algren compared to a lovely woman with a broken nose.