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‘Cocaine Prison’ is a Compelling Character-Driven Portrayal of Bolivian Prison Life
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‘Cocaine Prison’ is a Compelling Character-Driven Portrayal of Bolivian Prison Life

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Christopher Campbell
Sep 10, 2017
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In a time when too many documentaries exposit their own process on screen, Cocaine Prison doesn’t share enough. Or maybe it shares too much without being explicit enough with the whole situation. Director Violeta Ayala and producer Dan Fallshaw apparently were teaching English in Bolivia’s San Sebastian prison when they started filming the story of two …

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