Mariana van Zeller is a badass. In just eight episodes of her new series on National Geographic, “Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller,” we watch the acclaimed investigative journalist talk to counterfeit money makers in a Peruvian strip mall, walk into the jungles of Mexico to have a talk with cocaine dealers, and learn about underground steroid experimentation in the quiet suburbs of Sacramento.
“I’ve always been attracted to the underworld,” van Zeller told IndieWire, ever since her first story as a journalist saw her moving to Syria at the start of the Iraq war. “I wanted to be close to the action,” she said. Close is an understatement; van Zeller is in the thick of the action throughout every episode and she thinks part of that might have to do with the fact that the worlds she’s walking through are often exclusionary to women. “I was filming a meth lab,...
“I’ve always been attracted to the underworld,” van Zeller told IndieWire, ever since her first story as a journalist saw her moving to Syria at the start of the Iraq war. “I wanted to be close to the action,” she said. Close is an understatement; van Zeller is in the thick of the action throughout every episode and she thinks part of that might have to do with the fact that the worlds she’s walking through are often exclusionary to women. “I was filming a meth lab,...
- 12/2/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
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