Jason Moriarty
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Jason Moriarty is an American
United States
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 film director and producer. Most notably he directed and produced the 2004 documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 Prison Ball
Prison Ball
Prison Ball is a 2004 an American documentary film directed by Jason Moriarty and written by Jeff Scheftel. The 90-minute film is narrated by Ice-T.Prison Ball is about prison basketball as practiced by prisoners within prison walls...

about sport of basketball
Basketball
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 played in American prison
Prison
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s.

In the documentary, Moriarty interviews various inmates and prison officials and specialists on the matter and tackles as well "prison basketball leagues" operating within prison systems.

He shot the documentary in New Orleans, Louisiana
Louisiana
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, USA. The 90-minute film is narrated by Ice-T
ICE-T
* Ice-T, an American rapper and actor* ICE T , a tilting model of the German InterCityExpress series of high-speed trains...

.

In 2004, Prison Ball was nominated for the Hollywood Film Festival awards for the category "Hollywood Documentary Award".

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