For those that have already experienced the extraordinary series that is The Wire, a new documentary adds in a missing element in David Simon‘s exploration of Baltimore crime: dirt bikes. With the comparison already floating around after the film’s SXSW premiere this past year, the first trailer for Lotfy Nathan‘s 12 O’Clock Boys has now arrived.
Tracking a young boy named Pug in West Baltimore and his desire to join a gang known as The 12 O’Clock Boys, it looks like an exhilarating peek into this dangerous way of life. Check out the trailer for the Kickstarter-funded documentary below for the film that Oscilloscope Pictures plans to release early next year.
Pug, a thirteen year old boy living on a dangerous Westside block, has one goal in mind: to join the 12 O’Clock Boys; the notorious urban dirt-bike gang of Baltimore. Converging from all parts of the inner city, they invade the streets and clash with police, who are forbidden to chase the bikes for fear of endangering the public. Pug looks to the pack for mentorship, spurred by their dangerous lifestyle. He narrates their world as if explaining a dreamscape, complemented with unprecedented, action-packed coverage of the riders in their element, guided by the riders themselves as they take to the streets and clash with Police. The film presents the pivotal years of change in a boy’s life growing up in one of the most dangerous and economically depressed cities in the United States.
12 O’Clock Boys opens early next year.