Out on the quiet city streets, in the pre-dawn hours, a battle is being waged. For decades, graffiti writers, street artists, and bill-posters have contended with police and city clean up crews. Now they have a new enemy: the obsessive and self-motivated lone vigilante. This new breed of crime-fighter now stalks the urban landscape.

Two filmmakers go undercover to expose anti-graffiti vigilantes who stop at nothing to rid their neighbourhoods and cities of street art, stickers, tags and posters. Yet several of these vigilantes have become the very menace they set out to eliminate. In their relentless attempt to stamp out graffiti, they’ve turned to illegally and destructively painting other people’s property.

Vigilante Vigilante sets out to expose these mysterious characters and discovers a battle of expression that stretches from the streets to academia.

Festivals & Awards

Official Selection
Goteborg Int’l Film Festival 2012
International Festival of Films on Art, Canada 2012
Victoria Film Festival, 2012
New Orleans Film Festival 2011
New Hampshire Film Festival 2011

Reviews

“Engaging… Entertaining… Nary a dull moment…”
- Variety

“Talk about a mind-blowing twist to the graffiti question”
- SF Gate

“Even Hollywood can’t cook up this kind of irony”
- SF Chronicle

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The Parking Lot Movie

Becoming Santa

Sons of Perdition