Patricio Henriquez is a Quebec based filmmaker,[1][2] who is a partner with Robert Cornellier and Raymonde Provencher in the Macumba Films documentary studio.
[3] Henriquez grew up and trained in filmmaking in Chile, leaving the country after Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
[1] Henriquez's film Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd had its world premiere on October 10, 2014, at the Festival du nouveau cinema.
[7] The film, about the 22 Uyghur captives in Guantanamo, is his third related to controversial US policies on holding civilians, for years, in extrajudicial detention.
Rushan Abbas, a refugee herself, who had become a US citizen and successful in business, and had agreed to go to Guantanamo to serve as a translator, was one of the experts interviewed in the film told the Montreal Gazette why she agreed to be in Henriquez's film when she had declined other invitations.