‘Birds of Passage’ Directors Say They Found the Real Story of Narco Trafficking From the Women, Not the Men

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TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s very hard to see Pablo Escobar become a hero to a generation, because his process was really a process of destruction,” says director Ciro Guerra

Cristina Gallego Ciro Guerra
Photo by Steven Gerlich for TheWrap

This story on “Birds of Passage” first appeared in the Foreign Language issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.

Ciro Guerra, whose “Embrace of the Serpent” was nominated for the Oscar in 2016, co-directed with his ex-wife Cristina Gallego for the first time in “Birds of Passage.” The film tells the story of how the drug trade enriched but nearly destroyed the traditional Wayuu tribes in northern Colombia in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

“Birds of Passage” is the Colombian entry in this year’s Oscar foreign-language race, and this is one in a series of interviews with the Oscar foreign contenders.

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