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Blood on the Wall
In Central America, a caravan of migrants seeking a better life heads north to the United States, as narco-traffickers move drugs and money back and forth across the same border. From Academy Award-nominated director Sebastian Junger and Emmy-winning producer Nick Quested, Blood on the Wall explores the depths of corruption plaguing Mexico and Central America and the policies of the past that have made it impossible for everyday people to find justice.
About the Filmmakers
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Sebastian Junger
DIRECTOR AND PRODUCERSebastian Junger is the No. 1 New York Times best-selling author of “The Perfect Storm,” “Fire,” “A Death in Belmont,” “War” and “Tribe.” As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film “Restrepo,” a feature-length documentary (co-directed with Tim Hetherington), was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Restrepo, which chronicled the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, is widely considered to have broken new ground in war reporting. Junger has since produced and directed three additional documentaries about war and its aftermath. “Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?” which premiered on HBO, chronicles the life and career of Junger’s friend and colleague, photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who was killed while covering the civil war in Libya in 2011. “Korengal” returns to the subject of combat and tries to answer the eternal question of why young men miss war. “The Last Patrol,” which also premiered on HBO, examines the complexities of returning from war, by following Junger and three friends — all of whom had experienced combat, either as soldiers or reporters — as they travel up the East Coast railroad lines on foot as “high-speed vagrants.”
Junger has also written for such magazines as Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Outside and Men’s Journal. His reporting on Afghanistan in 2000, profiling Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated just days before 9/11 — became the subject of the National Geographic documentary “Into the Forbidden Zone” and introduced America to the Afghan resistance fighting the Taliban.
Junger’s duPont Award-winning film “Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS” was released by National Geographic Documentary Films in 2017 and chronicled Syria’s descent into the unbridled chaos that allowed the rise of the Islamic State.
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Nick Quested
DIRECTOR AND PRODUCERNick Quested is executive director and owner of Goldcrest Films, where he has built one of the premiere documentary brands in the world, winning two Emmys for his work. Quested has served as a producer on over 35 films, including Sebastian Junger’s “The Last Patrol,” “Korengal” and the PGA- and twice Emmy-nominated “Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington”; the Oscar-nominated “Restrepo”; and National Geographic Documentary Films’ duPont Award-winning “Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS.”
Quested is also an award-winning music video director, working with such artists as Dr. Dre, Nas, Puffy, Sting, Master P, Cash Money and Trick Daddy.
His credits include “Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives,” “Rubble Kings,” “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer,” “Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers,” “Stolen Seas,” “The List,” “Tell Spring Not to Come This Year” and “Doin’ It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC.”
A masked narco stands atop rock with vista in Sinaloa mountains. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofA masked narco stands atop rock with vista in Sinaloa mountains. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
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A marijuana field in Sinaloa Mountains. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofA marijuana field in Sinaloa Mountains. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
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A narco stands guard with a rifle in Sinaloa Mountains. (Nick Quested)
ofA narco stands guard with a rifle in Sinaloa Mountains. (Nick Quested)
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Culiacan Sinaloa, street car race. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofCuliacan Sinaloa, street car race. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
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Culiacan Sinaloa street car race martyr site grave. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofCuliacan Sinaloa street car race martyr site grave. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
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Sinaloa man cleans guns. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofSinaloa man cleans guns. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
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A table with drugs, scale, wire cutters and guns. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofA table with drugs, scale, wire cutters and guns. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
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Heroin cooking barrel. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofHeroin cooking barrel. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
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Sinaloa meth lab tent complex barrels with a guard nearby. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofSinaloa meth lab tent complex barrels with a guard nearby. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
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In Sinaloa, an old narco masked tapes bags of heroin together for shipment. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofIn Sinaloa, an old narco masked tapes bags of heroin together for shipment. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
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Sinaloa narco packs truck with bags of heroin. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofSinaloa narco packs truck with bags of heroin. (Photograph by Nick Quested)
ofNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY FILMS Presents
A JUNGER QUESTED PRODUCTION
In Association With
DIAMOND DOCS, GOLDCREST FEATURES and LONE WOLF
“BLOOD ON THE WALL”
Co-Producers GRETCHEN McGOWAN and NICO LUPO SONNABEND
Original Music by ANDRES SANCHEZ MAHER and EDUARDO ARAM
Edited by PAULA HEREDIA Co-Executive Producer MARK MONROE
Executive Producer MATT RENNER Executive Producer FISHER STEVENS
Produced by NICK QUESTED and SEBASTIAN JUNGER Producer PETER GOETZ
Directed by NICK QUESTED and SEBASTIAN JUNGER