The Seventh Fire
A Native American Gang Leader Confronts His Violent Past
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...
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 protege, 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
"Deeply 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
Jack Pettibone Riccobono
Kevin Fineday, Rob Brown