Atlanta Documentary Film Festival 2026: "Never Get Busted!" (Day 2)

From the venue:

The Atlanta Documentary Film Festival returns March 19 - 22 at Synchronicity Theatre in Midtown Atlanta for our 21st annual celebration of documentary films.

This year’s program includes powerful investigative films, personal stories, and documentaries that are funny, surprising, and deeply human. Some films will challenge you. Others may make you laugh or see something in a new way. That range of tone is part of what makes documentary filmmaking so exciting.

For the first time, the festival will also present a separate collection of films online, March 23 - April 6, giving audiences another way to discover documentaries beyond the theater.

Join us in Atlanta for four days of remarkable nonfiction storytelling. If you can't make the live event, be sure to check out our online selections.

March 20 "Never Get Busted!"

Directors David Anthony Ngo, Stephen Mccallum - Australia- 105 min. 

Barry Cooper is an expert at hiding drugs, evading police, and raising hell! But once upon a time he was a highly decorated Texas Narcotics Officer.

After a raid goes wrong, destroying a family not unlike his own, Barry's conscience gets the better of him and he quits the force.

Using stolen police tapes, he creates a DVD series teaching drug users how to hide their stash and becomes an instant media sensation. But when the police retaliate, Barry ups the ante and starts busting crooked cops on camera for all the world to see.

This is the story of one man’s fight to turn the tide on the War on Drugs, if he doesn’t get busted in the process!

Screening Friday, March 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM at Synchronicity Theatre

Screens with opening short film, State of Nebraska v. Crotchy the Clown at 5:00 pm