The Vice Guide to Film
The first episode from the new series The VICE Guide to Film. (Which I told you about not long ago)
Forget platinum blonde and plastic veneers because Hollywood this is not. From North Korea to Beirut, from Russia to Mexico City, The VICE Guide to Film offers an alternative view of cinema via a series of groundbreaking documentaries, each exploring some of the lesser known film movements from around the world.
Directed and Produced by VICE co-founder Shane Smith, and VICE Creative Director Eddy Moretti The Vice Guide to Film premiers from today on VBS.tv, with a behind the scenes look at the Mexican film industry.
In this episode, Shane and Eddy explore the active B-movie industry where the movies are low budget and about the very real world of drugs – narco-cinema. They visit ‘Video-Home’ (films that go straight to video) sets all over Mexico and speak with two of the biggest narco-cinema men.
Shane Smith goes to Mexico City to hang out with Mario Almada and other actors, directors and producers that play key roles in what is called in Mexico the “Video-Home” industry. He visits some sets both in Mexico City and in Sinaloa, in northern Mexico, where the drug trade is both very real and also reaches mythological proportions. The coverage will also touch upon cultural elements of northwest Mexico such as Malverde, the pagan patron saint of drug dealers and the narco-corridos, a music genre that sings about the perils and adventures of those involved in the drug trafficking both in Mexico and the US.
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