Coming to Discovery+ tomorrow, Thursday, March 25:
MIRACLE FISHING: KIDNAPPED ABROAD
Director:
Miles Hargrove
Co-Director:
Christopher Birge
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Nantucket, AFI Docs, Sidewalk, Dallas, Brisbane, Trinidad & Tobago
About:
A kidnapped man’s family and friends are forced to negotiate for his release.
The film screened as part of DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
On September 23, 1994, a group of Colombian separatist guerillas went “miracle fishing,” abducting American journalist Tom Hargrove to hold for ransom. Finding no support from either the US government or the local corrupt authorities, Hargrove’s family were forced to negotiate directly for his release, working with a tight circle of friends—with Hargrove’s 20-year-old son Miles filming everything on Video8. Returning to this footage 25 years later, he constructs a riveting, immersive chronicle of this ordinary family’s extraordinary experience.
what (not) to doc 