The Hijacker is a 90-minute animated and archival documentary about the life and times of Patrick Critton, a member of the Republic for New Afrika, a 1960’s Black militant organization, who hijacked an Air Canada jet to Cuba in 1971, who was arrested in New York days before 9/11, by a U.S.-Canadian anti-terrorism task force.
The Hijacker is part detective story, part terrorist thriller, part examination of America over the last sixty years. Patrick’s story is an odyssey defined by militancy in the name of Black liberation. The film will utilize archival footage, interviews, and cinema verite footage to bring Patrick’s life to the screen. Animation will illustrate Patrick’s first-person accounts, taking viewers to moments in his history that were not- nor could have ever been-filmed.
