Hoop Dreams (1994) is a documentary directed by American film producer and director Steve James. This documentary is about the life of two young men with big dreams of becoming college then possibly NBA basketball players. This film follows these two inner-city Chicago boys as they struggle to become somebody. Every documentary falls under one of six modes of documentaries. In this particular documentary the directors mixes participatory and observational modes. Hoop Dreams can be categorized as participatory because the documentary put an immense amount of emphasis on the interaction between the filmmaker and the subjects through interviews and different forms of direct involvement.
