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Jorge BOTERO: HELD HOSTAGE IN COLOMBIA
Documentaire | dv | couleur | 0:48:08 | Colombie , United States | 2003
On February 12, 2003 a Pentagon-owned Cessna went down in the jungle of southern
Colombia. Found near the crash site were the bullet-ridden bodies of a Colombian
crewmember and the American pilot. Three other Americans who were aboard the plane
were nowhere to be found.
Seen for the first time since their abduction, the three American hostages, flanked
by guerrilla soldiers with semi-automatic weapons and looking physically strong
after nearly six months in captivity, are seen in a new documentary titled, Held
Hostage in Colombia. The film is produced and directed by American filmmakers
Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce, along with Colombian journalist Jorge Enrique
Botero, who obtained exclusive footage of the three men in a jungle prison camp
on July 25, 2003.
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Director Jorge Enrique Botero has worked as a journalist covering Colombia, with
a particular emphasis on its civil war, for over 25 years. He recently received
an award from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberomericano (Foundation
for New Latin American Journalism) headed by Gabriel García Márquez,
for Como Voy A Olvidarte? (How am I going to forget you?), a documentary film
that follows the lives of Colombian military officers and soldiers who had been
held by the FARC for more than 4 years. As one of the few journalists ever to
enter FARC prison camps, his work has been a catalyst to bring about dialogues
that resulted in the freeing of prisoners. He is based in Bogotá, Colombia.
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