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Synopsis. An Amazonian chief’s 12-year-old daughter gets lost and kidnapped. While she is in the hands of a dishonest government official, the chief mistakenly captures an American banker only to find that he is behind the construction of a massive dam destroying his people.
- Soopum Sohn, Sabrina Mccormick
- 100 min
- 16
Thomas (Tim Blake Nelson) must travel to Brazil to help persuade an indigenous population to approve construction of a dam project, but when a young indigenous girl is kidnapped and forced into prostitution, Thomas has to fight to get her back and gain the indigenous peoples' trust. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 3 ...
- 100 min
Sequestrada directed by Sabrina McCormick. Watch the trailer, learn more and read about American Film Institute alumni.
Sequestrada - Apple TV. Available on Prime Video, iTunes. Tim Blake Nelson and Gretchen Mol star in this environmental thriller as American investors building an illegal dam in the Amazon. Thomas (Nelson) must travel to Brazil to help persuade an indigenous agency bureaucrat overseeing the project. But when a young indigenous girl is kidnapped ...
- Sabrina Mccormick
- Gretchen Mol
Nov 14, 2019 · In Sabrina McCormick and Soopum Sohn’s Sequestrada, corporate progress is hoping to absorb the Arara people into Brazilian society with promises of housing, schools, and hospitals with all the Western conveniences. The film calls these bureaucrats, waving the banners of a good life, a simple word…”liars.”
- Sabrina Mccormick, Soopum Sohn
Nov 15, 2019 · Sequestrada is a beautiful film showing off the elegance of the Amazon river and the simplicity of the indigenous villages. The drama is shot with handheld cameras giving off a fly-on-the-wall documentary style of filmmaking. The acting isn’t that great but oddly feels authentic.
When Belo Monte dam displaces an indigenous girl, she must rely on a white man to save her people - although he is the key to their destruction.
