2026 Flyover Film Festival
Cornbread Mafia + Q&A
Directed by Evan Mascagni and Drew Morris

$15 / $10 Speed and LFS members

The largest marijuana syndicate in American history was not run out of Miami or New York, it came from a bunch of farmers in Marion County, Kentucky. This documentary tells their unbelievable true story, starting in the 1970s when young men came home from Vietnam to find their farming communities collapsing. Sons of tobacco farmers, and before that moonshiners and bootleggers, they turned to marijuana as a way to keep their families and small town alive.

What followed was outrageous: lion cubs on the farm, wild trips to Vegas, backroads police chases, a code of silence that baffled prosecutors, and an operation so big it became known as the Cornbread Mafia. Equal parts true crime and tall tale, this is a story about friendship, survival, betrayal, and a whole lot of weed, told with the humor and honesty of the people who lived it. The film world premiered at SXSW. 2026, U.S., DCP, 87 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Includes post-screening Q&A with Director Evan Mascagni, Producer Merry-Kay Poe, Co-Producer Matt Wyatt, as well as some of the main participants.

To learn more about the 2026 Flyover Film Festival, check out the full lineup here.