Having included a handful of excellent documentaries on our Best Films of 2013 So Far feature, we’re now looking towards the fall to see what the genre provides and today brings a trio of trailers for a few of the more notable entries. First up, Jamie Meltzer‘s Informant will land on September 13th, telling the wild story of an activist who turned sides to help the FBI.
Then we have a trailer for Shaul Schwarz‘s Sundance and Berlin documentary Narco Cultura which dives into a different sort of crime, tracking the Mexican Drug War and traffickers who have become celebrities. Lastly, we have a trailer for a doc that looks at what it takes to make the perfect body. Coming from director Vlad Yudin, Generation Iron is complete with narration from Mickey Rourke and features Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno and more. Check them all out below, along with posters and official synopsis attached.
Winner of Best Documentary at the 2012 Doc NYC Festival, Informant is a fascinating, gripping portrait of Brandon Darby, a radical activist turned FBI informant who has been alternately vilified and deified. In 2005, Darby became an overnight hero when he traveled to Katrina-devastated New Orleans and braved toxic floodwaters to rescue a friend stranded in the Ninth Ward. Soon after, he co-founded Common Ground, a successful grassroots relief organization. But over the next few years, he began hiding a shocking secret. After two young protestors were arrested at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Darby revealed he had been instrumental in the indictment as an FBI informant.
To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become iconic outlaws, glorified by musicians who praise their new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by an addiction to money, drugs, and violence. From war photographer Shaul Schwarz comes NARCO CULTURA, an explosive look at the drug cartels’ pop culture influence on both sides of the border as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War.
Generation Iron examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives the audience front row access to the lives of the top 7 bodybuilders (including Phil Heath, Kai Greene, Branch Warren and Dennis Wolf) in the sport as they train to compete in the world’s most premiere bodybuilding stage—Mr. Olympia.
Which of the above docs look most interesting to you?