Watch The Retrieval

The Retrieval is a drama based on the lives of slave owners and traders during the Civil War. This film is written and directed by Chris Eska, starring Ashton Sanders as Will, Tishuan Scott as Nate and Keston John as Marcus. The film is about a fatherless 13 year-old boy named Will who survives by working with a white bounty hunter.

The year is 1864 and the war is consuming the nation. The film is based upon a white bounty hunter and how he sends a fatherless teen-age boy to lure runaway slaves and freedmen back to the South. Will finds himself in a compromising situation. Bill Oberst portrays Burrell, the bounty hunter that has control over Will. Will and his uncle Marcus are sent to find Nate and lure him back to the South. After finding Nate, Marcus informs him that his brother who is in enemy territory in the South is dying.