“There’s a nice line between religion and insanity.”
Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies has launched a trailer for an attention-grabbing and tragic documentary titled The Mission. The story facilities on a 26-year-old Christian missionary from America named John Chau, who ended up being killed by an Indigenous group on an island off the coast of India, This was one of many final communities on the planet that was nonetheless dwelling in isolation.
The movie was directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss and it’s a “gripping homicide thriller that examines the ethical and moral implications of John Chau’s story to probe deeply into the sophisticated historical past of colonialism and international exploration.”
In 2018, “a stunning occasion made headlines around the globe: a younger American missionary, John Chau, was killed by arrows whereas making an attempt to contact one of many world’s most remoted Indigenous peoples on distant North Sentinel Island. From Emmy-winning administrators Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss with Oscar-winning producer Simon Chinn & Emmy-winning producer Jonathan Chinn of Lightbox, comes Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies’ The Mission, which uncovers the gripping story past the headlines. By way of unique interviews and with unprecedented entry to Chau’s secret plans, private diaries, and video archives, The Mission examines the mythology of exploration that impressed him, the evangelical neighborhood that supported his quest, and divulges his personal father’s heartbreak as Chau’s youthful thirst for journey turned a deadly obsession.”
McBaine and Moss mentioned in an announcement: “Trying intently at John Chau’s dying, we discovered a sophisticated, layered story, equal components journey and tragedy. At its core, it’s an intimate drama, an emotional dialogue between father and son. However it additionally raises questions for all of us in regards to the nice historic forces which have formed our world, in regards to the implications of religion and the legacy of the so-called Age of Discovery. It is a story worthy of the large display screen, and one which echoes the epic tales that impressed John and at last doomed him.”
The Mission will premiere on the 2023 Telluride Movie Competition this week and it is going to be launched in choose theaters (NY & Toronto) beginning on October thirteenth, 2023, and within the UK beginning November seventeenth this fall.
