Beauty queen saga inspires movie
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- Published on Friday, 23 September 2011 10:00
- Written by Michael Forbes
At the recent Toronto Film Festival, Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo presented “Miss Bala,” which tells the story of an aspiring beauty queen who gets caught up in the seedy world of organized crime.
The film was loosely based on a real incident in which the 2008 winner of Miss Sinaloa was arrested along with several armed gang members in Zapopan. The film suggests her pageant victory was fixed by these criminals.
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