Part of "For Your Consideration" -- a curated month-long series highligthing some of this year's best Oscar-nominated films. Regular admission price, or purchase a series pass to see all 11 series films--$40 for members, $65 general public.
Academy Award Nominee - Best Documentary Feature
Critics Choice Awards Nominee - Best Documentary
Winner - Best Director & Special Grand Jury Prize for Cinematography, Sundance Film Festival
"There are scenes here unlike anything you've seen. Timely, thoughtful and supremely well-constructed, we'd be stunned if this isn't the doc to beat on Oscar night." -Tom Huddleston, Time Out
"A jaw-dropping documentary about two vigilante groups, on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, trying to stave off Mexican drug cartels." -David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Executive Produced by Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award winning director of "The Hurt Locker"
With unprecedented access, CARTEL LAND is a riveting, on-the-ground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy--the murderous Mexican drug cartels.
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.
Heineman collaborated for two years with a team at HBO on the groundbreaking, Emmy-nominated HBO series, The Alzheimer's Project, which aired in May 2009. He also directed and produced OUR TIME – a feature length documentary about what it's like to be young in today's America. Heineman has directed several short films and commercials and is in development on a few different projects.