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in English - Festival de Cannes
international press PR CONTACT CANNES 2010 MAY 12 – 23 CANNES OFFICE: All Suites Garden Studio, Residence Home Business Cannes Croisette, 12 rue Latour Maubourg, 06400 Cannes Email: [email protected] Contact: Phil SYMES CELL +33 6 14 61 29 42 Ronaldo MOURAO CELL +33 6 12 02 80 77 Virginia GARCIA CELL +33 6 46 35 94 34 international sales CANNES SALES OFFICE: 4 La Croisette, 2nd floor 06400 cannes Phone +33 4 97 06 52 79 Carole Baraton CELL +33 6 20 36 77 72 [email protected] Laurent Baudens CELL +33 6 70 79 05 17 [email protected] Vincent Maraval CELL +33 6 11 91 23 93 [email protected] Gaël Nouaille CELL +33 6 21 23 04 72 [email protected] Silvia Simonutti CELL +33 6 20 74 95 08 [email protected] To download high resolution images please see the PRESS section at www.wildbunch.biz DIRECTED and PRODUCED by JEFF ZIMBALIST and MICHAEL ZIMBALIST US / documentary / 2010 SYNOPSIS While rival drug cartels warred in the streets and the murder rate climbed to the highest in the world, the Colombian national soccer team set out to blaze a new image for their country. What followed was a mysteriously rapid rise to glory, as the team catapulted out of decades of obscurity to become one of the best in the world. Central to this success were two men named Escobar: Andrés, the captain and poster child of the National Team, and Pablo, the infamous drug baron who pioneered the phenomenon known in the underworld as ‘Narco-soccer’. But just as Colombia was expected to win the 1994 World Cup and transform its international image, the shocking murder of Andrés Escobar dashed the hopes of a nation. Through the glory and the tragedy, The Two Escobars daringly investigates the secret marriage of crime and sport, and uncovers the surprising connections between the murders of Andrés and Pablo. Filmmakers’ Statement Our films tend to focus on disenfranchised communities in the process of rising up and transforming their political and economic circumstances.We choose these stories due to the scale of their historic importance - this is where societies are shaped. By comparison, sports have often felt like mere diversion, games limited to the playing field. At times, we have both drifted from the passion for sports we shared as young athletes and fans, engaging ourselves in other endeavors as seasons of professional competition passed by. Then, invariably, definitive moments in sports history would grab our attention and turn our logic upside down. Like in 1994, when an athlete named Andrés Escobar was murdered for accidentally scoring an own goal that cost the Colombian National Team a chance of winning the World Cup and transforming its negative image on the international stage. Here was a country with a national identity so integrally connected to the success of its soccer team that one mistake on a playing field dashed the pride of an entire nation and cost a man his life. Looking into the incident, we learned that the dramatic rise and fall of Colombian soccer was inextricably linked to the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Drug Cartel, considered by many the ‘ruling party’ of Colombia at the time. Sport in Colombia not only mirrored the personality and politics of society, but was also an inseparable part of that society - the playing field an extension of the streets and offices where influential decisions are made. On our journey through diverse walks of Colombian society during production, it became clear that this was far from a classic “deal-with-the-devil” narrative. It was the story of the passions and dreams of a people intrinsically tied to the rise and fall of a team. Stories such as this revive our childhood fascination with sports and confirm the fundamental role they play in shaping our world. Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist Filmmaker Biographies Jeff and Michael are Emmy Award nominated writers, directors, and editors whose films have been broadcast on HBO, MTV, PBS, Channel 4 UK, the BBC and BET, as well as theatrically distributed throughout North America, Europe, South America, Australia and Asia. FAVELA RISING, which Jeff directed, shot, edited and produced, was shortlisted for the Academy Award® for Best Feature Length Documentary in 2005, and among the 36 international awards it has won are Film of the Year from the International Documentary Association, Best Film at the Sydney International Film Festival and Leeds International Film Festival, as well as Best Director at the Tribeca Film Festival. FAVELA RISING was theatrically exhibited in five continents, held over in theaters in the UK for six months, and theatrically released by ThinkFilm and HBO in 34 cities in North America. Jeff and Michael are currently developing a 3D IMAX film on Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro with Quincy Jones, a feature documentary on the working poor being produced by Stan Lathaan and Russell Simmons, a feature documentary starring Shakira for her ALAS movement, and THE SCRIBE OF URABÁ, a narrative feature Jeff and Michael wrote and will direct about the true story of the first Colombian Peace Community, starring Academy Award® nominee Viola Davis (Doubt) and Goya Award winner Ivana Baquero (Pan’s Labyrinth). Jeff and Michael’s production company All Rise Films is a Ford Foundation grant recipient and has produced award-winning documentaries on third world development issues for clients such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the John Templeton Foundation. Recently, All Rise finished a four-part series for the Sundance Channel. The brothers’ segment on The Addiction Project, HBO’s 14-part series on drug abuse, continues to broadcast on HBO. Jeff graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with honors in Art Semiotics and Modern Culture and Media, and a concentration in Latin American Studies. Michael graduated with honors from Wesleyan University and trained as an actor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. The Zimbalist’s knockout documentary, “The Two Escobars” is… kinetically edited into a seamless historical narrative… This riveting pic pulses with the same rhythmic mastery achieved in the filmmakers’ earlier “Favela Rising.” Thrilling…Riveting…A treasure chest…To the beat of an eclectic score and through seamless editing that weaves together a plethora of news accounts, personal photos, and interviews with relatives, teammates, and other firsthand - frontline - witnesses, the directors deftly segue between two stories, either of which could stand solidly on its own. The story moves forward with the swift momentum of an espionage thriller. “The Two Escobars” crams 100 minutes of alternating joy, thrills, heartbreak and tragedy into a film that tells a story little known outside [Colombia]. A triumph… Few movies have better documented both the good and bad of sports. Illuminating… A must-see film. One of the best sports documentaries every made. The Sportsguy, Bill Simmons The sleeper hit documentary of the Tribeca Film Festival. The most complex and ambitious of the films available for review [at Tribeca]…on the widest canvas. A fast-paced, high-kicking look at the golden age of narco-soccer in Colombia. New York Magazine A can’t-miss documentary. The Latin Americanist Riveting… Appealing visual panache and a rhythmic soundtrack. The filmmakers hang a chilling cautionary tale about what can happen when success becomes a drug. Gives whole new meaning to the announcer’s phrase “The winner will be determined by a shoot out”. Candid interviews… and reels of rarely seen archival footage. If you want to see a soccer film, you’re in luck. One of the most exhilarating and emotional documentaries of the last few years. It’s simultaneously a great sports story and the most insightful, all-encompassing depiction of the legendary drug lord to date. Gordon and the Whale Propulsive, riveting… Momentum…carries the movie with an almost rock-arena fervor. Eye on the Arts CREW Directors and Producers Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist Screenwriters Michael Zimbalist and Jeff Zimbalist Editors Jeff Zimbalist and Gregory O’Toole DP Line Producer Fixer Original Score Producer for ESPN Production Coordinator Original Concept Associate Producer Jeff Zimbalist Viviana Galvis Romero Jenny Carolina González Camacho Ion Furjanic Daniel Silver Charlotte Von Hemert Nick Sprague Erin McPherson
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