David Ball is an American filmmaker. He is the screenwriter, director, and producer of the independent movie Honey — one of the first films to be licensed under a Creative Commons license. It is a movie about conflict in relationships and facing the hope and promise of past relationships through the filter of present relationships that are not faring well. The film was recently viewed at Harvard's Independents Week: New American Independent Cinema 2007.

The actual film can be seen in its on-line entirety (using Quicktime) here, and the script can be viewed here. David Ball also wrote a blog that he calls DuckRabbit Pictures about the film. David also wrote a "maifesto"about the film describing its basic premise and explaining why he wrote Honey.

David Ball is a 1987 graduate of The Westminster Schools (high school). He went was a [Morehead Scholar] at the [University of North Carolina], a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and graduated in 2006 from the Stanford Law School. Between college and law school, David Ball wroting a novel, directed Honey, acted, and performed improvisational comedy in the East Village in New York. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonon, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and was then awarded Santa Clara’s Social Justice Teaching Fellowship.[896]