Narco Cultura!

Hollywood

by Janet Donovan | on November 11th, 2013 |

Photo credit: Shaul Schwarz – Coutesy of Cinedigm

“To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become iconic outlaws, glorified by musicians who praise their new models of fame and success.

They represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by an addiction to money, drugs, and violence.

From war photographer Shaul Schwarz comes Narco Culture, an explosive look at the drug cartels’ pop culture influence on both sides of the border as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War.

Synopsis

For Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, there is no music more popular today than narcocorridos. These bloodthirsty and explicit odes to the exploits of narco traffickers and drug lords of Mexico openly glorify violence, narcotics and money. Like gangsta rap in the nineties, “Narco” is a movement threatening to burst into the mainstream.

Featuring powerful footage from the front lines of the drug wars and performances from some of the hottest Narcocorrido artists (including El Komander and Buknas de Culiacan) NARCO CULTURA takes viewers behind the scenes of the most explosive and violent music subculture in America.” Production Notes

Filmmaker Shaul Schwarz is expected in Washington this month and the film will open at the West End Cinema

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