Drug lord film stirs up Colombia
Documentary on son of Pablo Escobar nabs wide release
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Cine Colombia will send the pic out Dec. 10 in Colombia on 20 prints, the widest ever for a docu.
"This is very out of the norm," says Cristina Gallego, a producer at Bogota-based Ciudad Lunar Prods., which was not involved in the project. "Documentaries are rarely released in Colombia, and if they are, it is only on one print."
Michael Moore's "Sicko" didn't make the Colombia's commercial circuit, and Ari Folman's Golden Globe-winning "Waltz With Bashir" managed only one print.
"Sins" has an edge over the competish because of its subject matter. The doc follows Juan Pablo Escobar as he tells the story of his father, whose drug trafficking operation made him a rich man and an enemy of the U.S. government. The murder rate surged in Colombia at the height of his power. After a string of high-level murders, Escobar was killed in a gunfight, and his wife and two children fled to Argentina. Juan Pablo changed his name to Sebastian Marroquin.
In "Sins," he writes letters of apology to the sons of his fathers' victims, and then takes the messages to them in person.
"We always knew that it was an impossible task to get them together, but somehow four years later, we made the impossible possible," says Nicolas Entel of Argentina, the film's director and producer through his Red Creek Prods. banner.
"Sins," which is backed by Discovery Latin America, Colombia's RCN, France's Arte and the U.K.'s Channel 4, will have its world preem at the Nov. 7-15 Mar del Plata Film Festival before screening at the Nov. 19-29 IDFA fest in Amsterdam.
