SXSW 2014 Review: Tracking Down 'El Chapo' with The Legend of Shorty Henry Barnes - The Guardian
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Legend Of Shorty Clip - SXSW 2014 (Deadline Hollywood)

Film-makers Guillermo Galdos and Angus MacQueen’s search for the world’s biggest drug dealer was trumped by his arrest a fortnight ago, but their film is no less compelling for it.

The 21st century’s Public Enemy Number One was finally arrested two weeks ago. Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman headed up the biggest cartel in history, an operation responsible for trafficking an estimated 25% percent of the illegal drugs that enter the US. He earned a reported $1 billion in the process, prompting Forbes magazine to vote him one of the most powerful people in the world. It took the combined forces of the US and Mexican governments 13 years to track him down. They were almost pipped to the post by two men and a video camera.

The Legend of Shorty follows film-makers Angus MacQueen and Guillermo Galdos as they head on their own investigation into the whereabouts of the world’s biggest drug dealer. With extraordinary access to the cartel the pair travel to Mexico’s Golden Triangle, bear witness to the batchloads of cocaine, meth and marijuana being prepared for transport and take part in long, often surreal meetings with Chapo’s inner circle, including a lunch date with his mum.

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