Credits

Written, Directed and Produced by
Bernardo Ruiz

Editor
Carla Gutierrez

Director of Photography
Claudio Rocha

Original Score
Leo Abrahams

Co-producer
Patricia Benabe

Consulting Producer
Alex Rivera

Production Sound
Jose "Inerzia" Longás

Assistant Editor
Carlos Rojas

Additional Camera
Antonio Cisneros
Bernardo Ruiz

Additional Sound
Andre Rivera
Adriana Trujillo
Abraham Ávila

Interviewees
Sergio Haro Cordero
Richard Marosi
Adela Navarro Bello
René Blanco Villalón
Jim Follas
Mónica Oropeza Rodríguez
Zaida Montoya
Marcos Santelices
Luis A. Pérez
Laura Sánchez Ley

Post-production Facility
Final Frame Post

Colorist
Sandy Patch

Graphics and Title Design
Prashant Bharghava

Sound Designer and Mixer
Ruy Garcia

Dialogue Editor
Ruth Hernandez

Sound FX Editor
Roland Vajs

Sound Mix Facility
CB5, Inc.

Post-production Consultant
Doug O'Connor/Z-Post

Production Counsel
Fernando Ramirez, Esq.

Production Accounting
Adams & Salter, LLP.

Fiscal Sponsor
New York Foundation for the Arts

Production Assistants
Leann K. Lytle
Andrew Vargas Stehney
Raúl Santos
Dawn Schwartz

Production Interns
Raúl Paz Pastrana
Sara Khaki

Archival Footage Courtesy of
Paul Espinosa
KPBS
Frontline
The WGBH Media Library & Archives
Los Angeles Press Club
Alfredo álvarez Diaz
Ofelia Flores González
Sergio Haro Cordero
Semanario Zeta
Archivo Nacional de la Nación, Mexico City, Mexico

Archival Photographs Courtesy of
Sergio Haro Cordero
René Blanco Villalón
David Maung
Ofelia Flores González
Semanario Zeta
Zuma Press, Inc.
The Drug Enforcement Agency Museum & Visitors Center
The Drug Enforcement Agency - San Diego Field Division

Thanks to

Ford Foundation – Just Films
Orlando Bagwell
Sharon LaCruise

Sundance Documentary Institute
Cara Mertes
Rahdi Taylor
Kristin Feeley
Win-Sie Tow
Jean Shin
Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs

Sundance Composer's Lab Advisors
Peter Golub
Jon Else
Vivien Hillgrove
Martin Bresnick
Lisa Moore
Scott Johnson

Cinereach
Philipp Engelhorn

Michael Raisler

Adella Ladjevardi
Leah Giblin
Reva Goldberg

Latino Public Broadcasting
Sandie Pedlow
Luis Ortiz

Writer's Guild of America, East
Lowell Peterson
Geoff Betts
Ursula Lawrence
Justin Molito

GoodPitch/ Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation
Jess Search
Maxyne Franklin
Beadie Finzi
Annabel Walker
Elise McCave
Sandi Dubowski
Judith Helfand

Special Thanks To
Ricardo Acosta
Jorge Aguirre
Karim Ahmad
Abraham ávila
Julio Benabe & Elsie Cintrón
Dana Catharine
Angad Bhala
John Decker
Sandi Dubowski
Carolina Durán
Robert Donnelly
Andrés Waldo Espinoza
William Finnegan
Mari Carmen Flores
Yance Ford
Tatiana García
Armando Gómez
Ben Goldberg
Carlos Gutiérrez
Ingrid Hernández
Simon Kilmurry
Shaday Larios Ruiz
Iazua Larios Ruiz
Kathryn Lo
Norma Manzanares
Rosario Mosso Castro
Patricia Nava
Yamini Nayar
Gabriela Olivares Torres
Orianna Riley
Gabriel Rivera
Phillip Rodriguez
Silvia Rodríguez Huanosto
Mónica Rodríguez Oropeza
Marco Antonio Vera Godoy/ Mexicali Rose
Eduardo Ruiz
Blanca Villaseñor/Albergue Juvenil del Desierto
Kathryn Washington
Remy Weber
Michael Wei

Production Manager for ITVS
David Eisenberg

Executive Producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer

Filmed on location in Mexicali, Tijuana and San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico and in San Diego, CA, USA.

REPORTERO is a co-production of Gardens of Paradise Film, LLC. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

REPORTERO is produced by Gardens of Paradise Film, LLC. which is solely responsible for its content.