“Cocaine Cowboys“, the documentary about the 1980s Miami cocaine business that its distributors, Magnolia Pictures, are positioning as the “Real Miami Vice”, will be released in selected cities of the United States on the 27th of October.
If you can stand to live in cold and wet Melbourne, Australia, it will have two showings at the forthcoming Melbourne Film Festival, on the second and eighth of August.
In the warmer surroundings of Miami, Florida, locally-based director Billy Corben and producer Alfred Spellman spoke this past weekend at the Rewind/Fast Forward Film & Video Festival, showing clips of their film. Here is an interview they had with the Miami Herald before the festival.
Two clips from the film that have been posted on Youtube are below.
How widespread cocaine use was at the time.
How the business worked.
