The Seventh Fire

Streaming video - 2016

Executive produced by Terrence Malick, Natalie Portman, and Chris Eyre, THE SEVENTH FIRE is a fascinating new documentary about the Native American gang crisis.. When Rob Brown, a Native American gang leader on a remote Minnesota reservation, is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved Ojibwe community. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future: becoming the most powerful and feared Native gangster on the reservation.. . World Premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival 2015. . . New York Times Critics' Pick, July 2016. Nominated for Best Documentary at Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2016. . . “Deep...ly textured, rueful… Jack Pettibone Riccobono gets cameras into a county courthouse and a local jail, and he spends time, at home and in public… capturing a terrifying ambient sense of no exit.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker. "FASCINATING... a sensitive, evocative portrait" – Noel Murray, The Los Angeles Times more