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Movie
Opening:
Maria
Full
of
Grace
7/9/04
Maria Full of Grace (aka
"Maria Llena Eres de Gracia") is the riveting story of a 17-year-old Colombian
girl who loses her job de-thorning roses at a flower plantation outside
of Bogota and agrees to travel to the US as a drug "mule" -- swallowing
a half-kilo of heroin in thumb-sized rubber pellets. The film is
a tense examination of a rarely glimpsed corner of the drug trade as well
as an affecting exploration of one young woman's search for her place in
the world.
"Maria Full of Grace" was
the first Spanish language film to be accepted into Dramatic Competition
at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award this past
January. It then went on to the Berlin Film Festival where lead actress
Catalina Sandino won the Silver Bear for Best Actress and the film won
Best First Feature. It continued to the Los Angeles Film Festival
(Audience Award), Cartagena Film Festival (six awards), Seattle Film Festival
(Best Actress), Newport Film Festival (Best Actress and Best Dramatic Film),
the Provincetown Film Festival, the Nantucket Film Festival, the Guadalajara
Film Festival, the Maui Film Festival, the Moscow Film Festival and the
Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
The film is in Spanish with
English subtitles. It will be released in theaters July 16 in New
York and LA; and on July 30 in Washington DC, Miami, San Francisco, Philadelphia,
Seattle, Minneapolis, San Diego, Denver, Portland, Atlanta, Dallas and
Houston.
Visit http://www.mariafullofgrace.com
or http://www.mariallenaeresdegracia.com
to learn more about the film. Next week's issue of Drug War Chronicle
will include a review of Maria Full of Grace -- contributed by someone
whom long-time Drug War Chronicle readers will remember.
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Issue #345, 7/9/04
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Newsbrief: Prohibition as a Marketing Tool -- Camel Ad Campaign Touts "Forbidden Fruit" Appeal |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story |
Newsbrief: California Prisons "Dysfunctional," State Report Concludes |
Movie Opening: Maria Full of Grace |
Media Scan: New CSDP Ad -- Richard Paey and Rush Limbaugh |
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