25 Feb 2018
Steve James: from basketball court to court room
Steve James is best remembered as the director of the award-winning "Hoop Dreams" documentary in 1994, inexplicably snubbed for an Oscar nomination. But on March 5 (NZ time) at the 90th Academy Awards he's in the running, for his documentary "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail". It's the story of what happened to Abacus bank in New York in 2012, in the fallout from the American mortgage crisis of 2008. Documentary maker Steve James explains.