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Documentary "Where Soldiers Come From" by Heather Courtney Screens at Festival
By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Aug 2, 2011, 12:02
Filmmaker Heather Courtney's documentary "Where Soldiers Come From" recently screens in Traverse City, Michigan...
Filmmaker Heather Courtney's documentary "Where Soldiers Come From"
recently screened at the Traverse City Film Festival in Traverse City, Michigan
this summer. From a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of
Afghanistan and back, “Where Soldiers Come From” follows the four-year
journey of childhood friends and their town, forever changed by a faraway war.
At its heart a story about growing up, the film is an intimate look at the young
men who fight our wars, the families and town they come from, and the everyday
struggles of their return.
(Photo: Filmmaker Heather Courtney behind the camera. www.wheresoldierscomefrom.com)
Heather Courtney has directed and produced several documentary films including
award-winners Letters from the Other Side and Los Trabajadores. With her current
film, Where Soldiers Come From, she was a Sundance Edit and Story Lab fellow,
and a 2009 recipient of the prestigious United States Artists fellowship. Her
films have been funded by a Fulbright Fellowship, ITVS, the Sundance Documentary
Fund, the Paul Robeson Fund, and the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund. She was
recently named one of Film Independent's Top 10 Filmmakers to Watch. Letters
from the Other Side was the Closing Night film at the Slamdance Film Festival
in January 2006, screened at numerous festivals around the world, and was broadcast
on over 60 PBS stations. Los Trabajadores won the Audience Award at SXSW and
the International Documentary Association David Wolper award, and was broadcast
nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens. She was a co-director on Roger
Weisberg's Critical Condition, which aired nationally on POV in Fall 2008, and
is a member of the acclaimed film distribution cooperative New Day Films. Prior
to receiving her MFA in Film Production, she spent eight years writing and photographing
for the United Nations and several refugee and immigrant rights organizations,
including in the Rwandan refugee camps after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Heather is from the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and is proud to
call herself a Yooper.
Resources:
http://www.wheresoldierscomefrom.com/
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