2017
Bearing Witness: ‘City of Ghosts’
We all have a sense of the power of video, but seeing "City of Ghosts," Matthew Heineman's documentary about the civil war in Syria,...
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‘City of Ghosts’ Subjects Fight ISIS (With Cameras)
"Cartel Land" director follows members of the RBSS media group, who seek to show the horrors of ISIS in Raqqa.
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‘City of Ghosts’ Director Matthew Heineman on Why Directing, Producing and Shooting His Films Makes It Easy to Dive In
"Things just grab me and I become obsessed with them."
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Shooting a Real-Life Meth Lab for Documentary ‘Cartel Land’
In a first-person account, director Matthew Heineman writes on MovieMaker Magazine about finding and shooting a real-life meth lab deep in Mexico for his...
2015
‘Cartel Land’: Capturing Conflict and Conflicting Perspectives
Cartel Land is a harrowing look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy: the Mexican drug cartels
2015
Inside the Character-Driven War on Drugs Documentary ‘Cartel Land’
Director Matthew Heineman’s documentary Cartel Land tells the story of two leaders in both Mexico and Arizona fighting against a vicious and enormous drug...
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Director/DP Matthew Heineman Shoots in the Middle of a War Zone for ‘Cartel Land’
Director and DP Matthew Heineman talks to Indiewire about the challenges of shooting his documentary Cartel Land, about the war on Mexican drug cartels....
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