Hardwood (film)

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| name = Hardwood

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| director = Hubert Davis

| producer = Peter Starr
Erin Faith Young

| writer = Hubert Davis

| starring =

| music = Fraser MacDougal
Dave Palmer

| cinematography = David Tennant

| editing = Hubert Davis

| distributor = National Film Board of Canada

| released = {{Film date|2005|03|17|Cleveland International Film Festival}}

| runtime = 29 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

| budget =

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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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/hardwood/about.html |title=PBS Synopsis |website=PBS |access-date=2017-08-29 |archive-date=2009-02-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208101324/http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/hardwood/about.html |url-status=dead }}

Hardwood was met with high critical acclaim and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/307573/Hardwood/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017031141/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/307573/Hardwood/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-17 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2012 |title=NY Times: Hardwood |accessdate=2008-12-07}} It also aired on PBS as part of its Point of View series in 2005.