Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, 2023

In 2018, a shocking event made headlines around the world: a young American missionary, John Chau, was killed by arrows while attempting to contact one of the world’s most isolated Indigenous peoples on remote North Sentinel Island. Through exclusive interviews and with unprecedented access to Chau’s secret plans, personal diaries, and video archives, the film examines the mythology of exploration that inspired him, the evangelical community that supported his quest, and reveals his own father’s heartbreak as Chau’s youthful thirst for adventure became a fatal obsession.

A panel discussion with Humanities' faculty Kette Thomas and Rich Canevez, and Visual and Performing Arts Chair, Jared Anderson, will follow the film.

103 minutes
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