ABOUT THE FILM:

After the filmmaker’s grandmother was held hostage, she shocked her small town by declaring that she felt more threatened by the police than by the men holding her hostage – and she wasn’t the only woman that year to do so. A thrilling piece of family lore intersects with the famous kidnapping of Patty Hearst and a dramatic bank heist in Sweden, in this interrogation of the concept of Stockholm Syndrome.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:

Mimi Wilcox is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker & editor based in Brooklyn. She most recently edited the 3-part Netflix docuseries Escaping Twin Flames (2023), for which she won an American Cinema Editors Eddie award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. Her feature documentary editing credits include Kartemquin Films' The Dilemma of Desire (Showtime, SXSW 2020) and With This Light (Winner, Documentary Feature Jury Award at Austin Film Festival 2022). Her first short documentary as director, Alpha Mare, was a 2021 Vimeo Staff Pick and she co-produced the award-winning How To Fall in Love in a Pandemic (Tribeca 2021).