Hoops Dreams

Synopsis

For nearly five years the remarkable lives of Arthur Agee and William Gates were chronicled by a team of filmmakers. Roughly 250 hours of film were devoted to their journeys from the playgrounds to high school competition to college recruitment and it became the award winning film Hoop Dreams Now prizewinning journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to light all the richness and subtlety of their stories and the impact their aspirations had on themselves, their families and relationships. It it is an intimate look complete with an epilogue on the latest developments in their lives.  

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