A Documentary Short

WORLD PREMIERE SHEFFIELD DOCFEST 2024. In March 1973, the filmmaker’s grandmother was in an impossible situation when two men held her and her five children at gunpoint in their house. 50 years later, director Mimi Wilcox connects this personal story to the tales of Patty Hearst and Kristin Enmark. Featuring interviews with Enmark, the person most closely associated with the origins of the term Stockholm Syndrome, we explore how human compassion comes into conflict with police aggression and institutional prejudice. Bad Hostage interrogates this misogynist myth and in doing so re-frames falsehoods and decades of pop culture lore.

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2024 WORLD PREMIERE SHEFFIELD DOCFEST

2024 IDA AWARDS - SHORTLISTED FOR BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

2024 BEND FILM FESTIVAL - WINNER, SPECIAL JURY AWARD

2024 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL - NOMINEE, BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

2024 HOT SPRING DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - OFFICIAL SELECTION

2024 ST LOUIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - OFFICIAL SELECTION

2022 NYC WOMEN’S FUND GRANTEE

2021 KTQ LABS PARTICIPANT

2021 THE FILM FUND GRANTEE

2019 KARTEMQUIN FILMS EMERGING STORYTELLER FUND GRANTEE

2019 puffin foundation grantee

2019 Points North Shortform Editing Residency

2019 Docs in Progress Peer Pitch West/Midwest

FISCALLY SPONSORED BY CHICAGO FILMMAKERS

With support from: The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts.

Funding provided by Kartemquin Films Emerging Storyteller Fund Grant: supported by Sage Foundation.

Funding has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation.

This project is partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

CREDITS

DIRECTED & EDITED BY
Mimi Wilcox

PRODUCED BY
Max Asaf & Mimi Wilcox

CONSULTING EDITOR
Nyneve Laura Minnear

ORIGINAL MUSIC BY
Clare & Olivier Manchon