Giants of Africa

Director Hubert Davis
Year 2016
Run Time 77min
Genre Documentary
This inspiring doc chronicles the work of Giants of Africa, a program founded by Toronto Raptors GM Masai Ujiri that uses basketball to educate and enrich the lives of underprivileged African youth.

Director

Hubert Davis

Davis’s first film, Hardwood, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Documentary. He received the Don Haig award at the Hot Docs festival for Invisible City, and has directed numerous award winning commercials, as well as the short film Aruba and the 2016 feature doc Giants of Africa. His 2017 short, Rivolta, won a Cannes Film Lion. his most recent feature doc Black Ice, premiered at TIFF 2022. Next, he is working on the series The Count.

Writer

Hubert Davis

Cast

Masai Ujiri

Producer

Josiah Rothenberg

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Black Filmmaker, Sports

Original Language

English