FEATHERED COCAINE

Directors: Marino Orn Arnason und Thorkell S. Hardarson (Iceland)
Producers: Marino Orn Arnason und Thorkell S. Hardarson
Format: HDCAM
Length: 90 min
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Status: World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival 2010 in World Documentary Feature Competition

FEATHERED COCAINE is not a wildlife documentary. It is a documentary about the international trade of falcons. After the trade of drugs, people and weapons, smuggling falcons is ranked No 4 in the list of the most profitable illegal trades. Most people are not aware that
the effects of the falcon trade has exerted huge influence over thousands of years on politics, economy and society all around the world.

FEATHERED COCAINE  reveals in an investigative way the contexts between the trade of falcons and historical events, where royal dynasties, institutions like the CIA and the KGB, the oil industry and Al Caida were involved.

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