Sentences with phrase «narco cultura»
6) «Narco Cultura» It's hard to see how amazing this film is if you regard its subjects as monsters in a foreign land rather than extremes of the warrior / gangster / thug mentality that polices and terrorizes every corner of the world.
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Heineman's documentary (which follows on the heels of Shaul Schwarz's Narco Cultura, and Angus Macqueen and Guillermo Galdós's Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty) began life as a portrait of extremist American vigilantes patrolling the Mexican border in Arizona, afeared of the tide of drugs and people they believe are overrunning their country.
The fund supports feature - length documentaries in postproduction, and previous winners include Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson's American Promise, Shaul Schwartz's Narco Cultura, and Zachary Heinzerling's Cutie and the Boxer, which won the Sundance Directing Award for documentary and is up for an Oscar this year for Best Documentary Feature.
Right from the start, it's clear that this will be an ultra-close-range portrait of the drug war — a popular topic in recent movies both fictional («Miss Bala,» «Heli») and not («Narco Cultura,» «Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty»).
Like the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, the hellish morass that is the drug war in Mexico has resulted in numerous documentaries, including such recent efforts as «Narco Cultura» and «Western.»