My Kidnapper
Short film Completed 2010
Directors
Mark Henderson, Kate Horne
Doc Society helped with
Production
Runtime: 85 minutes
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In 2003 Mark Henderson was one of eight backpackers taken hostage by Marxist guerrillas while 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.
Long Synopsis
Eleven months after his release Mark received an email from Antonio, one of his kidnappers, and one of the other hostages received a Facebook friend request from Antonio’s girlfriend, another of their captors. What followed was a five year correspondence that eventually drew Mark back to the one part of the world he thought he’d never see again.
My Kidnapper 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, understand more about how they all dealt with the ordeal and eventually come face to face with their kidnappers.
My Kidnapper is a deeply personal film that explores a kidnapping, from both sides. Directed by Mark Henderson and Kate Horne and produced by Renegade Pictures (The Yes Men Fix the World, Boys from Baghdad and The Shock Doctrine).
Crew
Mark Henderson, Kate Horne
Directors
My Kidnapper is Mark Henderson’s first feature length documentary and has been five years in the making. He has worked in the British television industry for 14 years and has directed and produced documentaries and factual series for BBC, ITV and Channel 4 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. My Kidnapper is Kate’s directorial debut. Kate Horne is co-producer-director on My Kidnapper. She is a London based producer and journalist with a particular passion for South America. Recent projects have taken her to Ecuador to produce In Search of the Head-hunters of the Amazon (a co-production for Channel 5 UK and National Geographic) and Colombia to write an article on the kidnapping situation for the Telegraph Magazine. My Kidnapper is a directorial debut for Kate.
