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 Down in the Delta, Hope Is a Stranger: 'Ballast'
By S. JAMES SNYDER
September 30, 2008
Unlike so many films about black communities that tend to feel exaggerated or plain offensive, Lance Hammer's "Ballast" is honest and respectful of its characters and the painful space they inhabit.
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