12 O'clock Boys is a documentary about street gangs riding dirtbikes in Baltimore. It was released last year and has been racking up awards at various festivals where it has been shown. Lotfy Nathan, its director and producer, secured funding for his project through Kickstarter. Finally, something that greatly helped its popularity was its distribution by the labs of the late "Beasty Boy" Adam Yauch, "Oscilloscope." The documentary 12 O'clock Boys tells the story through Pug, a young black boy from a lower-middle-class family in Baltimore, about the fervor of gangs on enduro, motocross, or quad bikes performing wheelies, skids, or anything else that the law doesn't permit within a city. Of course, license plates are not something this gang deals with, as they are inconvenient for putting the bike completely vertical on the rear wheel (12 O'clock). Once you achieve this feat, you can join the gang, among other illegal requirements. Sundays are meeting days, and hundreds of bikes gather, taking over the city on one wheel; if a police car appears, the best option is to go against it and kick its trunk from the bike. Many of these gangs use these bikes because, in their drug distribution business, it is almost impossible for the police to catch them riding their Harley-Davidsons. Pug, the protagonist, wants to be a 12 O'clock Boy no matter what, and he won't stop until he achieves it, despite seeing some gang members die in accidents. Aside from the biker scene, the documentary narrates and denounces the situation of one of the most economically depressed cities in the United States and how they cope with death, with the passing of one of Pug's brothers and a member of the gang. [fvplayer src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMQY6k16TU" width="686"]
