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KIDNAPPER |
Year: 2010
UK: Renegade Pictures
Cast: Mark Henderson
Directors: Mark Henderson, Kate Horne
Countries: UK / Germany / Colombia
UK: mins
UK Certificate:
UK Release Date: 11 February 2011 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis
MY KIDNAPPER is a powerful and fascinating documentary directed by
Mark Henderson and Kate Horne and reveals an emotional journey into
a kidnapping, told from all sides.
In 2003 Mark Henderson was one of eight backpackers taken hostage
whilst trekking in the Colombian jungle.
What had started as an innocent tourist adventure, ended up
as 101 terrifying days of captivity and uncertainty about his
future. Eleven months
after his release Mark received an email from Antonio, one of his
kidnappers, and one of his fellow hostages received a facebook
friend request from Antonio’s girlfriend, another of their
captors. That email was
the start of a five-year correspondence between hostage and
kidnapper that eventually drew Mark back to the one part of the
world he thought he’d never see again and face to face with the
man who had once held the key to his freedom.
MY KIDNAPPER is a deeply personal, authored documentary, which
follows Mark and three of his fellow hostages as they return to the
Sierra Nevada mountains in northern Colombia, the place where they
lived out their worst nightmares.
As they travel deeper into the jungle, they discover the
truth behind what happened to them, come to understand how they all
dealt with the ordeal and finally confront two of their kidnappers.
Ultimately, MY KIDNAPPER is a film about forgiveness,
atonement and humanity.
The feature debut of Mark Henderson and Kate Horne, MY KIDNAPPER was
five years in the making. Mark
Henderson has worked in the British television industry for 15 years
and has directed and produced documentaries and factual series on
subjects as diverse as teenage pregnancy, the British adoption
system and homelessness. Kate
Horne is a producer and journalist with a passion for South America
and especially Colombia. She recently completed her second feature documentary on the
kidnapping of Ingrid Bettancourt.
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