The Great Hip Hop Hoax

The Great Hip Hop Hoax is a documentary film by Jeanie Finlay about a Scottish hip-hop duo called Silibil N' Brains, who pretended to be Americans to secure a £250,000 record deal with Sony.^[1] The film premiered at South by Southwest^[2] and was later shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival,^[3] before a national theatrical release in Scotland and broadcasts on BBC Two Scotland, BBC Four, and Danish station DR2.^[4] It was pitched at Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket in 2008.