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Synopsis: A documentary on radical left-wing activist turned FBI informant, Brandon Darby.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Jamie Meltzer
Production: Music Box Films
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
UNRATED
Year:
2012
81 min
$9,770
Website
41 Views


He was like, "Brandon."

And I was like, "Oh sh*t,

where are you at?

You don't know what,

the situation I'm in.

Where are you?

Don't tell me you're in Texas."

And he was like, "No,

I'm in this boat with these Rangers."

And I was like, oh sh*t.

It was the Army Rangers who had

initially picked me up.

And they,

they went to his address and got him.

In a moment, in a, you know,

flash of an eye,

how the whole infrastructure

could just dissolve.

I had been surrounded by water by

this time about maybe ten days.

"Your friend sent us to get you.

Do you know Brandon?"

I said,

"Yeah" and I just laughed and said, "Wow."

Brandon calls. "I got King."

And man, I cried.

And I cried, like it was one of

the most joyous times of my life.

Cause I'd almost given up

hope that he would be alive.

You have all kind of signs

all over the community

saying that we kill looters,

but what constitutes a looter?

Scott:

They put all these really hateful signs.

But then they decided

to take it on themselves

to have armed militia patrols.

These guys were

policing their community,

and they identified

enemy as black.

And so they had in fact

become racist and because

they were armed and they were using that,

they were using force,

they had become

racist militias.

Scott:
We go and we cover up a

dead body that was bullet-riddled.

And the question is,

who killed this man?

And then there's

another one two streets over.

And I'm like,

who killed this man?

- Was it the vigilantes?

- We shot 'em!

Woman:
They were looters!

- You had to do what you had to do.

If you had to shoot somebody

you had to shoot somebody.

Don't go into a white woman's home and

tell her you're gonna take it over.

Woman:
No. You don't do that.

- No.

We don't allow

that around these parts.

No way is this happening.

Not in front of me, you know?

Not in front of me,

I'm not letting this happen.

Even if it kills me,

it's wrong.

It's just wrong,

I'd rather die saying hell no to this.

And that's what we...

that's the decision we made.

Brandon and I,

when we brought guns,

we brought a lot of

semiautomatic weapons,

we brought a lot

of high-powered rifles.

And we f***ing...

and us and people from this community

sat on the porch

and said, "no more."

Get the f*** out of here.

This is not a place to f*** with.

Like this is...

it's over.

You know I was ready

for guerrilla warfare

and Scott was the one

who was actually

and he was like well we need

to be prepared for that,

if indeed something else happens and they

start trying to kill black people again.

But we also...

here's a chance to organize.

This is gonna be a chance for us

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Jamie Meltzer

Jamie Meltzer is an American movie and documentary film director. He has made "True Conviction", "Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story", "Welcome to Nollywood", "La Caminata" (a short film), and the feature-length documentary film "Informant". He teaches documentary film production in the Art Department of Stanford University, as part of the MFA Program in Documentary Film. "True Conviction" (2017), a feature length documentary, follows a group of exonerated ex-prisoners who start a detective agency, work to rebuild their lives, and struggle to fix the criminal justice system. The film was awarded a Special Jury Mention at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. "Informant" (2012) a feature-length documentary film that investigates the turbulent journey of Brandon Darby, a radical leftist activist turned FBI informant turned right-wing Tea Party activist. It premiered at the 2012 San Francisco International Film Festival,"With uncommon restraint, Meltzer delivers a fascinating study that transcends political chest beating. Informant raises the possibility of fluid truth in a system addicted to false binaries." The film won the Best Documentary Jury Award at the Austin Film Festival in October 2012."La Caminata" (2009) is a short film exploring the efforts of a small Mexican town to combat the migration of their community to the U.S. The town, El Alberto, puts on a weekly tourist event called the Caminata, where they simulate a nighttime "crossing" of the border, complete with balaclava-clad coyotes and simulated border patrol in hot pursuit. The film played at film festivals in 2009, including the AFI Silverdocs Festival and the True/False Film Festival. "Welcome to Nollywood" (2007) is a documentary about the explosive phenomenon of Nigerian movies. It aired on PBS as part of the AfroPop Series in 2008. "Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story" (2003), an hour-long documentary, marks his feature film debut. It played at festivals worldwide, and was screened on PBS' Independent Lens series in 2003. "Pegasus" (1998), a short 16 mm film made while he was a graduate student at San Francisco State University, chronicles the adventures of a gay motorcycle club on a joy ride in Marin County. This film was screened at the 1998 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival as well as other venues. more…

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