SXSW Doc ‘Take No Prisoners’ Follows America’s Top Hostage Negotiator in Battle to Free L.A. Public Defender From Venezuelan Prison

In “Take No Prisoners,” director Adam Ciralsky and Subrata De were given unprecedented access to America’s former top hostage negotiator, Roger Carstens, as he battles to free L.A. public defender Eyvin Hernandez from a Venezuelan prison.

The opening sequence of the documentary could be mistaken for a Jason Bourne film. On a tarmac in Miami, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s nephews — convicted drug traffickers — are loaded onto a U.S. government plane to be exchanged for seven Americans: Matthew Heath, Osman Khan, and the so-called Citgo Five. Ciralsky was the only journalist-filmmaker on the tarmac at Joint Base San Antonio when the newly freed hostages arrived.

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