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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. CARTEL LAND is a chilling, visceral meditation on the breakdown of order and the blurry line between good and evil.

Thank you to DIRECTOR MATTHEW HEINEMAN, winner of Sundance Film Festival 2015 Best Director Award for joining us for our Saturday, July 18th  screening of CARTEL LAND for a Q&A.

“One person’s armed vigilante is another person’s guardian angel and the border between these two ideas is wafer thin and easily crossed as Matthew Heineman’s beautifully shot and probing documentary shows.”-Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film

“This is a film that’s both timely and timeless, an examination of what appears to be an unassailable cycle of awfulness…Matthew Heineman’s film feels like a peek into a gaping maw of wretchedness.”- Jason Gorber, TwitchFilm