Elevate
Thursday: 7:30 pm – Rotary Center
Saturday: 2:30 pm – Rotary Center
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rating: PG
Runtime: 83 minutes
Director: Anne Buford
Producer: Anne Buford, Victoria Yoffie, Mark Becker
Elevate documents the extraordinary personal journeys of four particularly tall West African Muslim teenagers. Recruited for both their physical and academic skills they accept basketball scholarships to schools in the United States–and face the daunting challenges of alienation, a foreign language, American-style basketball and an unfamiliar American culture rife with African stereotypes. But with courage, humor, and remarkable resilience, they relentlessly pursue their dreams–to obtain an education and a shot at the NBA.