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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
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with low-income communities.

Because we believe

that people help people

better than

the federal government can.

(applause)

He's trying to introduce

the best elements

of the Common Ground model,

to the Tea Party,

so that they will work

on issues of social injustice.

Brandon:

I wanted to help people,

and I thought the way to help

people was to help the Left.

But really I wasn't such a

Leftist after all, you know?

I just wanted

to help people.

(applause)

The 2008

Republican National Convention.

How many of you realized there was

a bomb plot against the delegates?

They made eight gallon-size

homemade napalm mixtures

that they were gonna throw at

Republican delegates, and at cops.

They get arrested.

...honored to have been

a big part of that.

I'm very honored.

(applause)

Thank you.

Thank you.

I think from day one Brandon has

stories that he tells himself.

Brandon had a story

that he told himself

about why he was with the FBI

and what his concerns were.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

Now that Brandon's main audience

is the very right wing,

he's convinced himself

of a new story.

How he's a hero who

single-handedly stopped,

terrorists from

killing delegates

at the Republican

National Convention.

Photographer:
Bullshit!

- (Laughter)

Maybe he hears it enough

and he believes it.

He certainly went in hoping that

he would do something heroic.

I think that the details

of this are much more ambiguous.

I ended up helping

stop a bomb plot,

And they tried to throw Molotovs at

police officers and Republican delegates.

In the farthest reaches

of the Left we have people,

like Lisa Fithian,

organizing the most radical

dredges of the Left.

All of the young people

around her take that war drum

that she beats about our country

and that dehumanizes you,

and they make bombs to burn you.

They burn your property down

and they attack you.

Thank you for coming

and paying attention.

You have to fight back,

you have to speak back,

you have to do something about the

people who are trying to destroy us.

- Thank You.

- (Applause)

Brandon Darby.

He was once part

of that other crowd

that you see in the Occupy

Wall Street protests.

He saw the light.

He has come over

to the side of freedom.

(alarm keypad beeps)

Brandon:

To all concerned.

Like many of you,

I do my best to act in good conscience,

and to do what I believe

to be most helpful to the world.

Though my views on how to give of

myself have changed very substantially,

the motivations

remain the same.

I strongly stand

behind my choices.

In solidarity,

Brandon Michael Darby.

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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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