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Steven James (director of the classic American documentary Hoop Dreams) and Alex Kotlowitz’s The Interrupters () looks at the work of a group of violence preventers—the Interrupters—in Chicago. Inspired by an article on CeaseFire—the violence prevention organization the Interrupters work for—that ran in the New York Times Magazine by Alex Kotlowitz in , the film follows three of CeaseFire’s violence interrupters for a year.

Dr. Larry Slutkin, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois-Chicago, created CeaseFire as a way to combat the violence epidemic that afflicted the city from a public health perspective. From the organization’s website: “We combine Science and Street Outreach to track where violence is heating up and then cool the situation down.”

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