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GenreDocumentary, Short WriterHubert Davis LanguageEnglish
CastAaron Dudley, Mel Davis Release dateMarch 17, 2005 (2005-03-17) (Cleveland International Film Festival) Music directorDave Palmer, Fraser Macdougall Similar moviesHubert Davis directed Hardwood and Invisible City, Music from the Big House (2010), Hubert Davis directed Hardwood and The National Parks Project
Hardwood is a 2005 short documentary 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.
Hardwood was met with high critical acclaim and received an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject nomination. It also aired on PBS as part of its Point of View series in 2005.