ABSTRACT
Although their fathers had been lifelong friends, Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes did not meet until shortly before they began their first film, The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt. At the time, Victoria was a science writer with a master’s degree in geology, and the author of No Apparent Danger (HarperCollins, 2001), about a tragic expedition into a volcano in Colombia. Karin, a graduate of the University of California in Los Angeles, was working as an associate producer in Washington, D.C. Their plans to document the Colombian presidential campaign of Ingrid Betancourt changed when Betancourt was kidnapped by guerrillas in February 2002; instead, the filmmakers told Betancourt’s story through her family’s efforts to continue her campaign and ensure her safe return. Their feature-length film, The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt, aired on HBO in 2004.
