Muck Media Launches ‘El Fixer’ Film Project, About Fixers Who Escort Foreign Journos Into “Darkest Corners” Of Mexico’s Drug Trade
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Muck Media announced today it is adapting bestselling Mexican memoir El Fixer for the big screen, the company’s first foray into narrative-scripted content.
Journalist Miguel Ángel Vega’s book chronicles “his journey from aspiring filmmaker to guiding foreign journalists working for some of the world’s most recognizable media brands into the darkest corners of the drug war over the last decade.” It’s an inherently risky business, because outsiders in need of a fixer want to “go where the action is,” not necessarily understanding the mortal danger they face.
As a description of the book put it, “Many North American, German, English, and French journalists are interested in covering the ups and downs of organized crime in Mexico, but the first problem is how to establish contact with drug bosses, huachicoleros, kidnappers, with some leader or another of organized crime.
There’s no easy way to do this, so in Mexico, and all over the world, there are a select group of people who move on the razor’s edge in criminal networks without being criminals themselves: they are journalists, photographers, reporters known as a Fixer.” Mariana van Zeller, Muck Media partner and host of National Geographic’s Emmy-nominated series Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller, will serve as executive producer on the film, along with Ángel Vega and Muck Media partner and Emmy Award-winning director Darren Foster. “Fixers are the unsung heroes of the news gathering and documentary business.
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