Tigre Hill

Tigre Hill is a filmmaker known for tackling controversial subjects. He is perhaps best known for his first documentary, The Shame of a City.

Tigre Hill was born in Pittsburgh and raised in the western Philadelphia neighborhood of Wynnefield. The son of a highly decorated Marine officer and a well-known educator, Hill attended Episcopal Academy in Merion and Archbishop Carroll High School (Radnor, Pennsylvania), then graduated with a Speech and communications degree from Temple University.

While Hill’s first feature narrative film, Casanova’s Demise, has yet to be released because of various legal issues, its controversial subject matter (the film concerns a man sentenced to castration for committing rape), and its inclusion of local and national celebrities including R&B singer Adina Howard, attracted significant media attention and brought Hill to public notice.

The Shame of a City, a feature-length documentary that catapulted Hill into the local and national political spotlight, has been identified as a tool used by reform candidate Michael Nutter in securing election to Philadelphia mayoral office in 2007. The film, independently released in 2006, followed moderate Republican mayoral candidate Sam Katz as he unsuccessfully sought to defeat incumbent Democrat John Street in 2003 in a race that made national news when a Federal Bureau of Investigation bug was found in Street’s office. Hill’s film gained widespread attention for exposing many high-ranking Street supporters as disingenuous opportunists who intentionally and falsely manipulated racial tensions and suspicion of President George W. Bush's administration to get Street re-elected despite a string of corruption indictments in his inner circle that threatened to implicate him directly

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