DRUG LORDZ

Produced by Ed & Jose Quiroz and David Rocha
Written and Directed by Ed and Jose Quiroz
Editor and Cinematographer - Rocky Robinson

Salavador Castro - David Rocha
Nick - Jose Rosete
Richard Castro - Raul MArtinez
Scott - Ryan Mac
Raul - Karl J. Arana
Darryl - Brandon Bailey

DRUG LORDZ is your basic flick where we get lots of criminals doing criminal things to each other. If this kind of stuff happened more often in real life, the police would have very little to do. Our story begins with Oakland Drug Lord Salvador Castro torturing the crap out of some poor bastard. He forces the guy to off himself so Castro winds up in the joint. Flash forward to Castro's release date and he comes out to a very changed world. Entrusting his younger brother Richard with his dope business, he discovers that business has fallen off. The San Francisco drug lord Darryl has been muscling in on the Bay Area territory. Now Castro's out and he wants his turf back. To make things more interesting, it seems that the guy that Castro offed in the prologue has got family. Family that wants Castro dead. Now what would be the best way to off a west coast drug lord? That's right. Gang war. It doesn't hurt that the two brothers use the racial tension with Castro's Hispanic drug runners and Darryl's black musclemen. They both want nothing more than to make mountains of cash by preying on the drug addled community. But if it comes right down to it neither one is afraid to ignite the fuse that will lead to war.

To be honest DRUG LORDZ isn't my cup of tea. The story is good, solid writing that will appeal to a large cross section of folks out there. The film has problems. Wooden performances, bad cinematography, it all seems a little amateurish. But, therein lies the good. This is a film that shows the Quiroz Brothers have promise. They've got a few films of the same genre under their belt. They've proved that they can do the job. Now they need the polish that comes with practice. That's what DRUG LORDZ shapes up to be. Practice. But, it's the kind of practice that, in sports, makes for a winning team. The Quiroz Brothers are well on their way to that winning film. Besides, sometimes the practice is as much fun to watch as the real game.

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Bio Info for Douglas Waltz

In the spare time afforded him between a full time job for the local phone company, Douglas is happily married with five, that's right five, children. He is a staff writer for the Print magazine Cult Cuts and does work for the webzine (www.cultcuts.net). He also publishes his own small press zine called X-Ploitation. In addition to that he's working on an annual publication of short stories from various writers called On The Night Highways. And if that wasn't enough he's about to shoot his first short film, Phone Sex, sometime this summer.