Elevate (2011)
• October 21st, 2011 • 1h 21min
Documentary
Overview
From a basketball academy in Senegal, to the high-pressure world of American prep schools, the film documents the extraordinary personal journeys of four particularly tall West African Muslim teenage boys with NBA dreams.
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