Sequestro o Filme

A Yukon Filmworks and Midmix Entertainment presentation in association with Filmland Intl. and Paradigm Pictures. (International sales: Paradigm Pictures, Los Angeles.) Produced by Jorge W. Atalla, Alexandre Moreira Leite. Executive producers, Frederico Lapenda, Christian Gudegast. Co-producer, L.G. Tubaldini Jr. Directed by Jorge W. Atalla. Written by Atalla, Caio Cavechini. With: Humberto Paz, H...

NEW YORK — A vivid exploration of Latin America’s kidnapping epidemic, “Sequestro” benefits from multiple viewpoints and surprising access. Its glossily dramatic, first-person production make it a better fit for true-crime television than arthouses, but subtitles limit potential in that arena. The audience it manages to reach will find it as vicerally satisfying as a doc on...

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Filmmaker Jorge Atlalla spent four years with the police in Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo, making a documentary about kidnapping. In 2001 there were 400 kidnappings in Sao Paulo. A new anti-kidnapping police division was set up in the same year. Last year 60 people were kidnapped and while the police are catching increasing numbers of kidnappers, Atlalla believes the business of ...

Brazil is among the top 10 largest economies in the world and it shines as one of the most promising countries of the future. Yet, in the movie world, what often gives Brazil international recognition is the country’s notorious crime scene. “City of God” and “Elite Squad” are probably the best examples of this. Now, there is “Sequestro (Kidnapping)” which is the latest in the chain,...

In São Paulo, kidnapping is an established business—lucrative and hectic. From 2005 through 2009, a film crew followed the police department’s anti-kidnapping division, riding along to locate captivity houses, listening in on phone calls, observing horrified victims, level-headed inspectors, and busted criminals. The cases are similar—someone is snatched, ransom is demanded, cops demonstrat...

Stunned and frightened, Alessandro Ibiapina accompanied his mother into a bleak São Paulo, Brazil police station on the evening of January 27, 2008. Only four hours before, Jose Ibiapina–Alessandro’s father–had been abducted by a small group of thugs while at work. There inside the station, headquarters to DAS (Divisão Anti-Sequestro), or Anti-Kidnapping Division, sat Dario Dez...

The film opens with a grisly voice demanding, in Portuguese, that his ransom money ($15,000 U.S.) be paid to him. A young man, the victim’s son, cries that he doesn’t have it. The criminal replies, “We will make him suffer if you don’t pay up.” This is the world according to Sequestro, Jorge W. Atalla’s documentary about the large kidnapping business in São Paulo, Brazil, and the men ...

Much of Sequestro looks, basically, like COPS: Cameraman joins task-force rush, following bristling guns through a kicked-in door. The stakes are higher in Jorge W. Atalla’s documentary, though—over four years, Atalla’s crew shared the case-a-day workload of São Paolo’s DAS Anti-Kidnapping Squad. The film begins with audio from a kidnappers’ telephone call, their voices ...

While the (relatively) blossoming popularity of documentaries is encouraging, it is also undeniable that a number of these pictures have achieved said popularity by borrowing from the well-worn three-act structure of fictional films. These documentaries, such as Young@Heart or even Man on Wire, give audiences the reassurance of feel-good entertainment along with the (self-)satisfaction of choosing...