William Gates
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Gates (28 December 1971 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former high school and college basketball player and a subject of the 1994 Kartemquin Films documentary Hoop Dreams. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Gates (basketball), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?
Early Edition
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.
Hoop Dreams
This forty-minute program was produced by the Criterion Collection in 2014