Brin Hill

Brin has previously screened several films at Urbanworld, including Special Jury Prize recipient MORNING BREATH: A BROOKLYN LOVE STORY. Morning BREATH also captured a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and a Gold Hugo for Best Short at the Chicago International Film Festival.

Brin has directed/written award-winning projects for HBO, Sean P. Diddy Combs, Dimension, ESPN, AND1, Bombay Gin, Powerade, Warner Brothers, and MTV.

Brin will next direct his script WHITE HOT. He counts Spike Lee among his mentors.

Ball Don’t Lie

Directed by Brin Hill

Synopsis

With the electricity, humor and sweat of street basketball, BALL DON’T LIE is the coming-of-age story of Sticky (newcomer Grayson Boucher), a skinny 17-year-old high school junior living in Venice, California. Stuck in a foster care system that has forgotten him and living life as an outcast, it’s at a community gym that he finds his home and on the basketball court that he becomes a star. After years of building walls, Sticky overcomes the greatest of odds to find acceptance and surrender to love in the unlikeliest of places.

FILM INFO: BALL DON’T LIE
USA/2008/102 Minutes/35mm/Color
Director: Brin Hill
WRITERS: Brin Hill & Matt de la Peña
PRODUCERS: Michael Roiff, Jeffrey Smith, & Brin Hill
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Matthew Jensen
FEATURING: Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Nick Cannon, Rosanna Arquette, Emilie de Ravin, Ricardo Chavira, Steve Harris, Mykelti Williamson, Grayson “The Professor” Boucher.

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