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Just Another Missing Kid is a documentary film about the search for missing teenager directed by John Zaritsky. Eric Wilson had left his native Ottawa in July 1978 in a Volkswagen camper on a trip to Boulder, Colorado. Somewhere in Nebraska he disappeared. The movie traces how his family and a private investigator work to find out what had happened. The film focuses on how little the various police forces were of help and is an indictment of the apathy and bureaucracy of the legal system on both sides of the border. Raymond Hatch and Bertram Davis, hitchhikers Wilson had picked up, eventually confessed to the murder.

Originally produced by the CBC for the fifth estate, it was broadcast on CBC to much acclaim in 1981. In 1982 it was released in theatres in the United States and it won the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In Canada it won an ACTRA award for the best television program and garnered a number of international awards. Zaritsky broke new ground for documentaries by having the interview subjects recreate their actions for the camera. This caused some controversy as some critics and filmmakers felt these recreations did not make it a true documentary. In later years Zaritsky himself agreed the technique should not be used. However it has since been used by many other documentary filmmakers.

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