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The 2015 Sundance US Documentary Competition continues with: CARTEL LAND, Matthew Heineman's look at the response to Mexican drug cartels on both sides of the border.

Not exact matches

That led authorities on both sides of the border to make a series of arrests all the way up the cartel chain of command to Zambada.

Unflinching and compelling, this gutsy documentary blames governmental failure for the rise of vigilante groups who are taking on drug cartels either side of the Mexican border.

In this classic western set in the twenty - first century, vigilantes on both sides of the border fight the vicious Mexican drug cartels.

The documentary «Cartel Land» makes for urgent and topical viewing, ignoring the blustering of politicians for a grounds - eye view of life on both sides of the volatile U.S. - Mexico border.

The movie delivers an unprecedented view into the lives of two modern - day vigilante leaders who have taken up arms against the murderous Mexican drug cartels on separate sides of the Mexico and U.S. border.

The war that's raging near the edge of Arizona and Mexico has existed for years, pitting drug cartels against fed - up civilians on both sides of the border.

Observing the consequences of the Mexican drug trade on both sides of the U.S. border, Cartel Land toggles between Arizona and the state of Michoacan, about 1,000 miles to the south.

From Oscar - winning producer Kathryn Bigelow comes «Cartel Land,» director Matthew Heineman's documentary film about the Mexican drug war and vigilantes on both sides of the US - Mexican border.

A sprawling look at life on the front lines of the war against drug cartels in Mexico, this gripping film by Matthew Heineman explores the dangerous and messy moral dilemmas that arise when vigilante groups on both sides of the border take action.

You've probably heard all about Cartel Land, the documentary about the Mexican drug trade and two vigilante movements, on either side of the border, that have risen up to combat it.

Making the publicity rounds with his 2015 film «Cartel Land,» centered around the brutally violent drug trade in Michoacan and people on both sides of the U.S. / American border who made it their business to combat it, Heineman had been reading up on the ongoing strife in Syria, looking for a way to tell of one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time as a result of the rise of the jihadist Islamic State.

In «Cartel land» we meet another armed vigilante group fighting on this side of the border.

Nine months of filming took him on patrols with American vigilantes on this side of the border and into cartel - run meth labs and hideouts of the Autodefensas in Mexico.

Heineman ultimately settles on a pair of divisive figures from both sides of the border: On the one hand, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the galvanizing leader of the Michoacán - based militant group Autodefensas, provides a welcome alternative to the weak efforts of the state's police to combat cartel - related violence; on the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedenon a pair of divisive figures from both sides of the border: On the one hand, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the galvanizing leader of the Michoacán - based militant group Autodefensas, provides a welcome alternative to the weak efforts of the state's police to combat cartel - related violence; on the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedenOn the one hand, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the galvanizing leader of the Michoacán - based militant group Autodefensas, provides a welcome alternative to the weak efforts of the state's police to combat cartel - related violence; on the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedenon the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedent.

Casting a light on both sides of the border, Cartel Land begins with a chilling, impromptu nighttime desert drug cook with masked men as they talk about the ineffective nature of America's laws to stop or even put a dent in the illegal drug trade.

The movie is actually about two very different groups, on opposite sides of the Mexican - American border, who are fighting the cartels, and Heineman cuts back and forth between them in a way that creates an entirely false equivalence.

«Cartel Land,» Matthew Heineman's film about violence and vigilantes on both sides of the US - Mexico border, received five nominations for this year's Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking, Cinema Eye announced Wednesday.

Cartel Land (Director: Matthew Heineman)-- In this classic Western set in the 21st century, vigilantes on both sides of the border fight the vicious Mexican drug cartels.

Fusion recently sat down with U.S. filmmaker Matthew Heineman to talk about his Oscar nomination for his critically acclaimed documentary «Cartel Land», which gives a chilling look at vigilante movements on both sides of the Mexico border.

While the director tags along with Foley and his compatriots on a few desert - mountain excursions, one of which results in a bland confrontation with border - smuggling mules, these sequences add little other - side - of - the - story context to Cartel Land, mainly because Foley comes across as little more than an anti-government extremist infatuated with fantasies of defending his beleaguered nation from invading hordes.

That question hovers over «Cartel Land,» Matthew Heineman's immersion into anti-cartel vigilantism on both sides of the US / Mexican border.

In making his documentary «Cartel Land,» director Matthew Heineman gained access to vigilante movements, on both sides of the U.S. - Mexican border, pushing back against the drug cartels.

The filmmaker discusses his harrowing, unsettling documentary about two rebel groups on both sides of the border trying to bring down a Mexican drug cartel.

The deeply upsetting documentary chronicles the efforts of two vigilante groups bent on upending the Mexican drug cartels from both sides of the border.

From the outset, we are told directly it is the burgeoning US market that funds the cartels» activities, underwriting the atrocities that attend the production of drugs in Mexico, unimpeded by the authorities on either side of the border.

Subsequently, Heineman's father sent his son an article about the Autodefensas in Mexico — a vigilante group combating the cartel violence — which broke the story open for the director, giving him his «parallel portrait of vigilantism on both sides of the border.»

Matthew Heineman's Cartel Land is a classic western set in the 21st century, pitting vigilantes on both sides of the border against the vicious Mexican drug cartels.

The Directing Award: U.S. Documentary was presented to: Matthew Heineman for Cartel Land / U.S.A., Mexico (Director: Matthew Heineman)-- In this classic western set in the twenty - first century, vigilantes on both sides of the border fight the vicious Mexican drug cartels.

Cartel Land documents two stories, one from each side of the border, in the increasingly violent struggle between cartels and peaceful people on the US - Mexico border.

Heineman's film focuses primarily on the high - risk activities of two men on either side of the U.S. - Mexico border: American Tim «Nailer» Foley of the paramilitary group Arizona Border Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to coborder: American Tim «Nailer» Foley of the paramilitary group Arizona Border Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to coBorder Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to coborder; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to control.

«Cartel Land» reveals a culture that spans the border, full of death and dismaying behavior on both sides, but thriving all the same.

But soon, a plea deal sends Barrera back to Mexico, and the bad blood between these long - separated men reaches a boiling point that sets off an all - out cartel war on both sides of the border.