Name: Al Otro Lado
Genre: Documentary, Foreign, Music
Released: 2006
Duration: 1 min 10 s

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

To The Other Side

MPAA Rating

Genre

Documentary

Foreign

Music

Release Date

2006

Production Company

Arizona Humanities Council; POV

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 10m

Synopsis

Like many in Sinaloa, the drug capital of Mexico, 23 year old Magdiel faces two choices to better his life: trafficking drugs or illegally crossing the border into the United States. Yet Magdiel has a special talent that could be his ticket out: composing corridos--ballads about the narcotics underworld and illegal immigrant life. For over 200 years corridos have been Mexico's musical underground newspaper and the voice of people who rarely see their ideas reach the outside world. From Sinaloa, Mexico, to the streets of South Central and East L.A., explored is the world of drug smuggling, illegal immigration and the corrido music that chronicles it all.