A personal documentary disguised as expose, Justin Donais‘ glastonburykids tracks a few formative months in the lives of teenage troublemakers Lucas, Ben, Dan, Tom and Dylan — known around their lily-white, upper middle class Connecticut suburb as Dub G, short for “Gay Gangsters” (the “gay” part being presumably as much of a joke as “gangster”, although the film never delves’ into the boys’ sexual lives or preferences). Consciously “influenced” by Jackass, the teens rebel against their peers and parents, and the traditional concept of teen rebellion itself, by eschewing sex and partying and instead devoting their nights and weekends to videotaping themselves masterminding and following through with a series of stunts and pranks around the neighborhood — they call it their “anti-drug.”
True/False, that annual magical haven for nonfiction lovers in Columbia, Missouri, has announced a portion of their 2009 festival lineup. In addition to some festival circuit usual suspects (Sundance 2009 winners We Live in Public, Rough Aunties, Burma VJ and Afghan Star; LAFF 2008 winner Loot, and the Oscar-nominated Waltz with Bashir), there are a number of sneak previews and premieres that sound, based on their two-sentence pitches, to be well worth a look:
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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