Cocaine Unwrapped
Cocaine Unwrapped brings us unprecedented access to the political leaders of Latin America.
While Western demand for cocaine reaches record levels, so does the violence at every stage of the global trade in the drug. The film explores the international network of violence, imprisonment, poverty and addiction caused in its wake.
With front line reportage from coca farmers in Bolivia, drugs mules in Ecuadorian prisons, cocaine factories in the Colombian jungle, dealers on the streets of Mexico and Baltimore - and consumers from the clubs and dinner tables of the West - Cocaine Unwrapped portrays a story of death, economic devastation and human suffering and brings the war on drugs into a completely new light.
The white carpet film premiere for Cocaine Unwrapped will host a charged Q&A after the screening chaired by Sir Ian Kennedy, Chair of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority and with a panel to include Mike Trace, Chairman of the International Drug Policy Consortium and the former deputy UK drug tsar, Ariel Moutsatsos, Head of Press and Public Affairs at the Mexican Embassy and Grace Livingstone, Latin American Bureau and author of 'Inside Colombia:Drugs, Democracy and War.'
Leading advertising agency, Leo Burnett, has also collaborated with Dartmouth Films to create a special campaign around the issues that Rachel Seifert’s film explores. The work created by Leo Burnett includes sound design and two short films that introduce ‘Cocaine Unwrapped’, aiming to amplify the impact for Rachel’s film.
Directed by Rachel Seifert