Director of Gang Documentary Shot Dead

The director of a documentary about the brutal gang life in El Salvador was himself the victim of gang violence, shot dead in a car 10 miles outside San Salvador, the Independent reports. Christian Poveda, a 52-year-old French filmmaker, directed La Vida Loca, which aired locally and hits France this month. The film sheds light on day-to-day lives in a 30,000-strong gang culture that claimed 5,000 lives last year.

Poveda is said to have witnessed seven murders while he was making the film, which inclues images of shootings, public beatings, relatives crying over coffins, and gang members with faces covered by tatoos of their logos.
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