director: Chris Eska
composer: Matt Wiedemann, Yellow 6
With: Ashton Sanders (Will), Tishuan Scott (Nate), Keston John (Marcus), Bill Oberst Jr. (Burrell), Christine Horn (Rachel), Alfonso Freeman (Isaac), Raven Nicole LeDeatte (Abby), Jonathan Brooks (Royce), a.o.
On the outskirts of the Civil War, 'The Retrieval' follows a fatherless 13 year-old boy sent north by his bounty hunter gang on a dangerous mission to retrieve a wanted man under false pretense. During their journay towards the unwitting man's reckoning, the initially distant pair develops unexpected bonds.
CHRIS ESKA: Doki-Doki (2003, short), August Evening (2007), Slacker 2011 (2011), The Retrieval (2013)