Narco Cultura is a Cinereach grantee.
Narco Cultura
— BY Shaul Schwarz
status
Completed
type
Nonfiction
year
2013
director
Shaul Schwarz
producers
Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Todd Hagopian
Synopsis
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. Narco Cultura offers 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.