The Shottas are one of the leading criminal groups in Colombia’s port city of Buenaventura. The group gained notoriety due to its fierce and violent rivalry with the city’s other principal criminal ...

Kicking around the festival circuit since its 2002 completion, Cess Silvera’s ganja gangsta dud follows a couple of shottas (Jamaican gangsters, for those of you who aren’t shottas) as they ...

Written and directed by Cess Silvera, Shottas had a budget of US$200,000. The movie chronicles the lives of two friends, Biggs and Wayne (Spragga Benz), who grow up together in the tough streets ...

It's tempting to compare the Jamaican crime drama "Shottas" to the 1972 Jimmy Cliff classic, "The Harder They Come," especially considering the music stars in it (including Bob Marley's son ...

And the second one, we really feel it!” – ‘Cannot be everywhere’ – Authorities say the Shottas and Spartanos have between 400 and 600 members each, up to 1,000 counting those in prison.

Silvera, who said he has never recouped a penny of the $1.2 million he put together to fund “Shottas,” said he’s been told that as many as 2 million bootleg copies circulated.