Cartel Land
Cartel Land [is a] spellbinding, verite documentary -- a frontline look at the murderous Mexican drug cartels.
Cartel Land
In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley - a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley - Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across our border. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman embeds himself in the heart of darkness as Nailer, El Doctor, and the cartel each vie to bring their own brand of justice to a society where institutions have failed.
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
98
Language
English
Director
Matthew Heineman
Awards:
Winner, Cinematography Award, Sundance Film Festival
Winner, Directing Award ~ Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
If the key to price in real estate is "location, location, location," the key to success in vérité-style documentaries is "access, access, access." Which is what "Cartel Land" has in compelling amounts. Like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the hellish morass that is the drug war in Mexico has ...
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