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 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