2011 // 88 MINS // SOCIAL ISSUES, DOCUMENTARY // DVCAM // AUSTRALASIAN PREMIERE

Director/Screenwriter/Editor/Photography: Rodrigo Mac Niven
Music: Rafael Capuzzo
Producers: Rodrigo Mac Niven and Mariana Genesca
Production Companies: Mixer, Miravista, Globo filmes, Teleimage

With: Fernando Henrique Cardoso (former Brazilian President), Fernando Gabeira, Nilo Batista, Raul Zaffaroni, Antonio Escohotado

'Smokescreen (Cortina de Fumaca) is an independent project, inspired by the wish to construct a more balanced society based on freedom, diversity and tolerance.' - Rodrigo Mac Niven

Journalist Rodrigo Mac Niven's documentary explores international drug laws through interviews with doctors, researchers, politicians, and law enforcers around the world. Particularly concerned with cannabis laws, the doco questions prohibition, and discusses the complexities of a taboo subject with honesty and transparency.

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