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The year is 2006. Nicaragua is the new land of opportunity. Newspapers and magazines hail it as "The New Cancun" and "The Next Florida." Three naive Americans recklessly seize this golden opportunity and set up shop. They construct tourist resorts offering a "discounted" tropical paradise. What they don't know is that their cheap manual labor is about to run out. The natives become restless when they soon see what is truly happening; modern-day imperialism. Meanwhile, former revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas sweep back to power causing even more political unrest. Dreams of free-spending vacationers and pool-side margaritas give way to death threats and armed assaults. LAND is an updated tale of the Wild West where the cowboys have been replaced by developers and the "Indians" are now the fed up native Nicaraguans. Grab your guns.
Julian Pinder directed two experimental war documentaries in Bosnia then Kosovo while still in his teens. After film school, Julian worked closely with director Helen Shaver (Law and Order, The Unit, Medium), followed by three years as a producer with Sarrazin Couture Entertainment in Toronto. A rough traveller with an interest in the seedier parts of the world, he brings a knowledge of filmmaking, a proclivity for story, and a keen sense of the "other side" to his films. Pinder's debut feature doc, Land, premiered to sold-out audiences at the prestigious Hot Docs festival has been widely released, receiving rave reviews across the board.
