Following on from the recent Brazilian box office smash 'Tropa de Elite', 'Meu Nome Não É Johnny' is another Brazilian film about the Drug Trade. The film is currently raking in the money at the Brazilian Box office, edging towards the $5 million mark after 3 weeks at the box office. See the links below for a trailer and official site.

The film narrates the story of a boy of the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro that would later become the king of drug traffic in the 1980s and 1990s.[1]

João Guilherme Estrella is a typicall young boy of a middle class family of the Carioca South Zone. Adored by his parents and friends, he lived an intense life, passed by all the crazy things permitted and not permitted,and in the 1990s he adventured himself through the world of drugs where he would later become king. Investigated by the police and imprisoned, he has his face exposed in all the newspapers and magazines. Instead of parties, Estrella frequently visits the bench of the culprits, where he tells his story of his adolescenthood.