COCAINE COWBOYS is the sexy new documentary
by Miami filmmaker Billy Corben about the enormous
impact the cocaine trade and drug wars of the 70s
and 80s had on the identity, culture, economy and
even the skyline of contemporary Miami.

As the current hit movie MIAMI VICE reminds us,
smugglers and kingpins forever changed a once
sleepy retirement community into one of the world's
most glamorous hot spots when the town became
the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by
Colombia's Medellín cartel. By the early 80s, Miami's tripled homicide rate had made it the murder capital of the country, for which a Time cover story dubbed the city "Paradise Lost."

COCAINE COWBOYS features interviews with some of the era's top law enforcers, traffickers, suppliers, dealers and killers, mixed with some insanely cool archival footage to produce a serious yet entertaining, even exhilarating look at a startling urban transformation.

TV's "Miami Vice" composer Jan Hammer provides the synapse-bumping score for COCAINE COWBOYS, a rakontur film produced by Alfred Spellman and David Cypkin. rakontur's first feature, RAW DEAL: A Question of Consent caused a sensation at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.