29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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To Catch a Smuggler: Search and Seize

To Catch a Smuggler: Search and Seize

Todd Hermann / United States / 2011 / Czech Premiere / 48 min.


synopsis

This National Geographic television series shows New York’s John F. Kennedy airport from the guarded viewpoints of police officers looking for smugglers. As we follow their everyday routing, we see their techniques for uncovering contraband and for interrogating suspects.

Each episode begins with the statement that all the suspects in the series are presumed innocent. The faces of the people being interrogated are often blurred on purpose. Unlike in crime movies, the people who are apprehended are not automatically perpetrators and do not have faces. 

more about film

director: Todd Hermann
producer: Kevin Leadingham

contact

Channels s.r.o.
Lada Dobrkovská
Klimentská 10
Praha 1, 110 00
info@channels.cz
+420 222 733 679

Film at festival

premiere type:Czech Premiere
festival edition:2013
section:Docu.Reality
format:HD
language:English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Todd Hermann
original title:To Catch a Smuggler: Search and Seize
country:United States
year:2011
running time:48 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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