Robert Port is a filmmaker who earned enormous praise for his 2003 Oscar-winning short film Twin Towers, which depicts two brothers (one a firefighter and one a police officer) remembered for their bravery in New York on September 11th 2001. Working as a producer in television for a number of years, he has now made his feature directorial debut with
Recon, based on the critically acclaimed novel
Peace by Richard Bausch.
Recon is a tense thriller taking us to Italy in 1944, following four American soldiers on a gruelling ascent of an Italian mountain during the final days of the Second World War. Haunted by their evil sergeant’s cold-blooded murder of an innocent woman, they have only a local Italian man of uncertain loyalty to lead them off the mountain alive.