Eyes of the Storm
Screened Monday, October 13, 2008
Synopsis
“Informant” takes a spellbinding look at Brandon Darby, a radical activist turned FBI informant who has been both vilified and deified, but never fully understood.
Informant
USA 82 min.
- Director, Writer
- Jamie Meltzer
- Cinematographer
- Frazer Bradshaw
- Editors
- John Kane, Jamie Meltzer, Summers Henderson
- Director Bio
- Jamie Meltzer’s feature documentary films have been broadcast nationally on PBS and have screened at numerous film festivals worldwide. They include OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONG-POEM STORY (Independent Lens, 2003) about the shadowy world of song-poems, WELCOME TO NOLLYWOOD, an investigation into the wildly successful Nigerian movie industry (PBS broadcast, 2008), and LA CAMINATA (2009), a short film about a small town in Mexico that runs a simulated border crossing as a tourist attraction, which screened at Silverdocs and True/False, among others. Mr. Meltzer teaches in the Documentary Film and Video M.F.A. Program at Stanford University.
- Producers
- George Rush, Steve Bannatyne
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Trailer: Informant
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