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Giants of Africa
Featuring touching personal stories and breathtaking cinematography, this is a film that truly highlights the power of sport, and is an absolute must-watch for basketball fans.
Director
Hubert Davis
Davis’s first film Hardwood, a short documentary about his relationship with his famed father (Harlem Globetrotters player Mel "Trick" Davis), was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Documentary. He went on to receive the Don Haig award at the Hot Docs festival for Invisible City, and has also directed numerous award winning commercials, as well as the short film Aruba and the 2016 feature documentary Giants of Africa. His 2017 short Rivolta, won a Cannes Film Lion, and his feature documentary Black Ice premiered at TIFF 2022 where it won the People’s Choice Documentary Award.
Writer
Hubert Davis
Cast
Masai Ujiri
Producer
Josiah Rothenberg
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Black Filmmaker, Sports
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
Elevation Pictures