With gun violence dominating the headlines these days I wanted to dig back into the vault for a vintage interview we did with Spike Lee on the release of his movie Chi-Raq.

“The human spirit is a great thing,” he said on what he learned while doing research for the film. The director spent six months in Southside Chicago, ‘talking to people, meeting people, getting the lay of the land,” before shooting a single frame of this anti-gang violence movie.

The film draws its story about a neighbourhood woman who convinces the wives and girlfriends of gang members to withhold sex from their men until the guys agree to put down their weapons from a Greek play first performed in 411 BC. but details the very modern problem of gun violence.