‘Narco Cultura’ Interview: Director Shaul Schwarz, Narco-corrido Singer Edgar Quintero

How many times have heard something like “there is no need to make that movie”? Actually there is never “a need” to make any movie. Except for eye-opening documentaries. Narco Cultura is one of those. The beautifully shot film grabs your hand and takes you to two very different and unexplored realities: the bloody Cartel war in Mexico and the musical bands based in the U.S. that glorify these criminals.

Exclusively for Desde Hollywood, I sat down to talk about this phenomenon with director Shaul Schwarz and Narco-corrido singer and subject of the documentary, Edgar Quintero. Narco Cultura opens in selected theaters November 22 (NY), and December 6 (LA).

“To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto – a new form of the American Dream, fueled by the war on drugs. NARCO CULTURA looks at this explosive phenomenon from within; cycles of addiction to money, drugs and violence that are rapidly gaining strength on both sides of the US/Mexican border.”