Filmmaker and NYU professor Spike Lee loves discovering new talent behind the camera. One of his protégés is Josef Kubota Wladyka, a first-time Japanese/Polish director who studied under Lee and debuted this US/Colombian co-production in Cartagena and then Tribeca in Spring 2014. This gritty, well-reviewed drug smuggling drama opened this month from The Film Collaborative and is getting attention for what Wladyka calls its "Apocalypse Now"-stye shoot in the treacherous environs of Buenaventura with nonprofessional actors.