Heavy Weekend Explodes onto VICE: Inside the New Documentary on Global Outlaw Tribes

Heavy Weekend: Inside the World of Rogue Tribes

VICE and its countercultural project Away Days are set to unleash Heavy Weekend, an audacious documentary series that dives into the shadowy realms of fight clubs, illegal street racing, and covert cartels. Jake Hanrahan, a veteran VICE correspondent who has reported from Kurdistan to Ukraine, teams with filmmaker Jonny Pickup to capture the raw pulse of these fringe communities.

Why Heavy Weekend Matters

The series arrives at a moment when youth disaffection fuels a surge in underground movements, a trend noted by Reuters and Bloomberg. Each episode offers a kinetic portrait, from a midnight drag race in the outskirts of Berlin (↑ 12% viewership spike on VICE’s platform) to a clandestine cartel meeting in the Balkans (↓ 2 days to release).

“We’re exposing the fringe that mainstream media ignores,” says Hanrahan.

Subscribers can catch the premiere on VICE: Members Only or the VICE YouTube channel this Friday, September 11. Correction: An earlier dispatch misstated the premiere date; the series debuts on September 11.

Reported by: Donovan Trent

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