THE SUPREME COURTS DOCUMENTARY

Our Project Team

From indoor gyms to outdoor playgrounds, the documentary SUPREME COURTS: A Century of DC-Area Basketball will relate the game’s transformative historic, social, racial, cultural and athletic impacts on the city, the nation, the world.

Dave Lilling

Dave Lilling is an Emmy Award winner who formed Metro Teleproductions in 1989. He began his broadcasting career after graduating the University of Maryland. He started as a radio network freelance news and sports reporter. He was responsible for breaking some big stories – including the story that forced Secretary of Interior James Watt’s resignation, before making the full time move to television.

He travels extensively throughout the United States and internationally working in the news, sports, entertainment, and political fields. For years, clients such as Court TV, Johnson and Johnson, ESPN, MTV, ABC Sports, Retirement Living TV, Discovery Health, and the Department of Justice have relied on Dave’s expertise to quickly assemble live remotes, top quality crews, equipment and deliver a finely edited production on time and on budget. He regularly lends his services to CBS News in Washington, DC and to Showtime Sports.

Pennington Greene

Pennington Greene a native son of Washington D.C. and was just featured in the Kevin Durant Showtime Special. Basketball County: In the Water. He appeared in the film on three occasions and had his voice used twice. Pennington or Penny as he is called by his friends is a Basketball Aficionado. His basketball expertise comes from watching,playing, teaching, coaching, studying, and filming the history of the game. He started filming a project called Supreme Courts where he interviewed 100 people and collect over 100 hours of film footage. Soon he will be launching a podcast called Basketball Culture which will look at the game of basketball from the shoe industry & fashion to AAU, highschool, college and the NBA.

His newest basketball experience consists of being the co-founder and Vice President of the Cambodian Basketball Alliance, Inc. This new company Cambodian Basketball Alliance is in the process of securing a professional basketball franchise in Cambodia. (www.Cambodianbasketball.com )His accomplishments are varied in all different types of both entrepreneurial and corporate endeavors. His last entrepreneurial project was a land development deal www.Tuscanyhillsatl.com) Greene’s passion is his gift as is the case with the establishment of Tuscany Hills, Supreme Courts, Cambodian Basketball Alliance, and the newest venture Basketball Culture.

The leadership component predates his professional career, Penny Greene was an All-Met & All County basketball player at Parkdale high school in Riverdale Maryland, and he captained both his high school & college basketball teams. At University South Florida he was the first player to score 1000 points and the highlight of his college basketball career was a standing ovation in the world’s most famous sports area Madison Square Garden. His college basketball career afforded him a tryout with the Atlanta Hawks. His community service includes being the founder of an organization called DC Basketball Institute and the creation of the website www.DCBasketball.com which is a virtual online basketball museum. He is a Business Management graduate of University of South Florida.

Vinnie Perrone

Vinnie Perrone, a 40-year journalist, co-wrote and -produced the award-winning, feature-length documentary The Bayou: D.C.’s Killer Joint. Following an 18-year career as reporter and editor for The Washington Post, Perrone won the 2008 Eclipse Award for the nation’s best horse-racing feature article, published in the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred magazine, and edited the 2011 book A Tainted Legacy: The Policies of Samora Machel in Independent Mozambique for Lambert Academic Publishing. His word-puzzle creations, called acrostics, appeared in magazines from 2013 to 2020. Perrone graduated from the University of Maryland in 1980 with a journalism degree.