Narcocorrido

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Shorts - Fiction 2
Old Town Playhouse Sat, Aug 4, 2012 3:00 PM
This group of stunningly crafted shorts trades in high drama and mounting tension as the films' protagonists are forced to make difficult decisions. Featuring a cast of Somali refugees, “Asad” follows a young boy faced with a choice between falling in with pirates or living an honest, humble life, while in the drug ballad “Narcocorrido,” a pill-popping cop finds herself in over her head after a border shakedown goes awry, and in “Unmanned,” a young drone pilot living thousands of miles away from the warzone gets a harsh wake-up call in the aftermath of an errant missile strike.
Film Info
Section:Short Films
Release Year:2011
Runtime:24 min
Production Country:USA
Original Language:English, Spanish
Subtitles:English
Web Site:http://www.narcocorridofilm.com/
Cast/Crew Info
Cast:Nicki Micheaux
Raúl Castillo
Michael Finn
Emilio Rivera
Jessica Juarez
Gerardo Rojas
Director:Ryan Prows
Produced by:Onye Anyanwu
Screenwriter:Ryan Prows
Cinematography:Benjamin Kitchens
Editing By:Jarod Shannon

Description

The Narcocorrido, a drug ballad in the Mexican folk-music tradition, mythicizes seedy border tales of the modern west: drug lords, human trafficking, arrests, betrayals, shootouts and murder. Naija Dillion is a Yuma County Sheriff’s deputy, an outsider and minority in her community. Gravely ill, Naija robs a notorious cartel shipment in a last-ditch scramble for survival. When the robbery spirals out of control, Naija finds herself caught up in a narcocorrido made real. Can she recognize her shared desperation with the traffickers, men with families in danger if they don’t succeed in their delivery, or will she suppress her own humanity to live?