Hold Your Fire (film)
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- Stefan Forbes
| Hold Your Fire | |
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| Directed by | Stefan Forbes |
| Written by | Stefan Forbes |
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| Cinematography | Stefan Forbes |
| Edited by | Stefan Forbes |
| Music by | Jonathan Sanford |
Production company | InterPositive Media |
| Distributed by | IFC Films |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5,614[1][2] |
Hold Your Fire is a 2021 American documentary film written, directed, shot, edited, and produced by Stefan Forbes. It is about the 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis, a 47-hour standoff in New York City in January 1973 that saw one of the first successful uses of crisis negotiation by American law enforcement. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2021, and was theatrically released on May 20, 2022 by IFC Films.
Hold Your Fire follows the events of a hostage crisis that lasted from January 19 to January 21, 1973, which occurred after four young African American Sunni Muslims shot a police officer and took a dozen hostages while attempting to rob a sporting goods store in the Bushwick and Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhoods of Brooklyn. The documentary specifically centers around the negotiation strategies used by the New York City Police Department, spearheaded by police psychologist Harvey Schlossberg, to ensure the safe release of the hostages and the suspects' surrender, a departure from the typical aggressive hostage rescue tactics used by American police at the time.[3][4]