Hardwood (film)

Hardwood
Directed byHubert Davis
Written byHubert Davis
Produced byPeter Starr
Erin Faith Young
CinematographyDavid Tennant
Edited byHubert Davis
Music byFraser MacDougal
Dave Palmer
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • March 17, 2005 (2005-03-17) (Cleveland International Film Festival)
Running time
29 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Hardwood is a 2005 documentary short film about Canadian director Hubert Davis' relationship to his father, former Harlem Globetrotters member Mel Davis. Through interviews with his mother, his father's wife, his half-brother, and Mel Davis himself, Hubert Davis explores why Mel made the decisions that he did, and how that has affected his life.[1]

Hardwood was met with high critical acclaim and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject.[2] It also aired on PBS as part of its Point of View series in 2005.

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References

  1. ^ "PBS Synopsis". PBS. Archived from the original on 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
  2. ^ "NY Times: Hardwood". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2008-12-07.


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