There’s a new detective agency in Dallas, and it’s run by three exonerated men with decades in prison served between them.

Informant examines Brandon Darby, a radical activist turned FBI informant who has been both vilified and deified, but never entirely understood.

“Ordinary people” respond to come-on ads on the back pages of magazines (“Send in Your Lyrics and Make $50,000 in royalties!”), mailing in their heartfelt but often bizarre poems to “music industry” companies that, for a fee, turn those poems into real recordings.

Roger Corman would swoon at the DIY antics employed by Nigerian moviemakers, churning out nearly 2,500 straight-to-video releases a year, they’ve made the West African nation the world’s third-largest movie market after the U.S. and India.

Fed up with the mass migration of their community, the small town of Alberto creates a one-of-a-kind tourist attraction – a simulated nighttime border crossing, complete with fake border patrol chasing balaclava-clad coyotes.

Every weekday, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. This observational short immerses the viewer in these first fraught moments at the bus station as the parolees embark on the next phase of their […]