Directed by Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster • 2008 • United States

This eye-opening documentary offers a rare look into the world of amateur youth basketball through the eyes of the Harlem-based fifth-grade team the New York Select Huskies, whose players include the son of filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster. Granted unprecedented access to the team’s inner workings as they set out to win the AAU National Basketball Championship, Stephenson and Brewster reveal the grueling price these young players must pay in their quest for victory and shed light on the hidden dark side of amateur sports.