''Giants of Africa'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by

Hubert Davis Hubert Ira Davis Jr. (born May 17, 1970) is an American college basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's team. Before his coaching career, Davis played for North Carolina from 19 ...

and released in 2016."Masai Ujiri building on hope with Giants of Africa: Arthur"
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Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and pa ...

'', September 2, 2016. The film centres on Nigerian-Canadian sports executive

Masai Ujiri Masai Ujiri (born 7 July 1970) is a British-born, Nigerian-Canadian professional basketball executive and former player and is the president of basketball operations of the Toronto Raptors in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After a m ...

Basketball Without Borders Basketball Without Borders is a basketball instructional camp organized by the NBA in conjunction with FIBA. It presents itself as a “basketball development and community outreach program that unites young basketball players to promote the sport ...

program to promote and build the sport of

basketball in Africa Basketball in Africa is run by the FIBA Africa. The major competition that FIBA Africa runs for national teams is the AfroBasket, while its biggest tournament for sports clubs is the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The National Basketball Associ ...

. The film garnered two

Canadian Screen Award The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media ( web series ...

nominations at the

5th Canadian Screen Awards The 5th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 12, 2017, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2016. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2017. Awards in many of the technical catego ...

in 2017, for Best Editing in a Documentary (Dave De Carlo) and Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Chris Romeike). It won the award for Best Editing."2017 Canadian Screen Awards: And The Winners Are…"
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'', March 12, 2017.

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* * 2016 documentary films Canadian sports documentary films Films directed by Hubert Davis Documentary films about Africa Documentary films about basketball Basketball in Africa Canadian basketball films Documentary films about Black Canadians 2010s English-language films 2010s Canadian films {{sport-documentary-film-stub