WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM
93 min - 2011| Documentary War
Recent winner of the 2012 Independent Spirit Award!
Enticed by a $20,000 signing bonus and the college tuition support, best friends Dominic and Cole join the National Guard after graduating from their rural high school. After persuading several of their friends to join them, the young men are sent to Afghanistan,
where they spend their days sweeping for roadside bombs. By the time their deployment ends, they are no longer the carefree group of friends they were before enlisting; repeated bombs blowing up around their convoys have led to the new silent signature wound
of the Afghan war, Traumatic Brain Injury, and they have all become increasingly disillusioned about their mission.
The challenges really begin to surface when they return to Michigan to their families and communities and try to fit back into their daily routines. WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM looks beyond the guns and policy of an ongoing war to examine the effect on parents, loved ones and the whole community when young people go off to fight.
Praise for WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM:
“Quietly devastating... In its compassionate, modest gaze, the real cost of distant political decisions is softly illuminated, as well as the shame of a country with little to offer its less fortunate young people than a ticket to a battlefield.”
—Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times
“Hauntingly beautiful and deeply felt... some of the best Afghanistan war-related storytelling I’ve seen.”
—Hank Stuever, The Washington Post
“The last 10 years have produced an array of documentaries about post-9/11 America, but few are as haunting and compassionate as Heather Courtney's ‘Where Soldiers Come
From.’”
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Salon
“Revelatory... emotional and engrossing.”
—Steven James Snyder, Time
http://wheresoldierscomefrom.com
http://www.texasifn.com
Enticed by a $20,000 signing bonus and the college tuition support, best friends Dominic and Cole join the National Guard after graduating from their rural high school. After persuading several of their friends to join them, the young men are sent to Afghanistan,
where they spend their days sweeping for roadside bombs. By the time their deployment ends, they are no longer the carefree group of friends they were before enlisting; repeated bombs blowing up around their convoys have led to the new silent signature wound
of the Afghan war, Traumatic Brain Injury, and they have all become increasingly disillusioned about their mission.
The challenges really begin to surface when they return to Michigan to their families and communities and try to fit back into their daily routines. WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM looks beyond the guns and policy of an ongoing war to examine the effect on parents, loved ones and the whole community when young people go off to fight.
Praise for WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM:
“Quietly devastating... In its compassionate, modest gaze, the real cost of distant political decisions is softly illuminated, as well as the shame of a country with little to offer its less fortunate young people than a ticket to a battlefield.”
—Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times
“Hauntingly beautiful and deeply felt... some of the best Afghanistan war-related storytelling I’ve seen.”
—Hank Stuever, The Washington Post
“The last 10 years have produced an array of documentaries about post-9/11 America, but few are as haunting and compassionate as Heather Courtney's ‘Where Soldiers Come
From.’”
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Salon
“Revelatory... emotional and engrossing.”
—Steven James Snyder, Time
http://wheresoldierscomefrom.com
http://www.texasifn.com
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