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Tickets for Documentary "Restrepo"

May-26-2010 » Filed Under: 5/2 SBCT , Announcements

Restrepo is a new documentary about U.S. forces in Afghanistan that will be showing at the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival. Kanani Fong of The Kitchen Dispatch website has a limited number of tickets available for screenings on May 28th & 29th. If you are interested please contact her via email directly at kananifong@gmail.com.

From Sebastian Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm" and Tim Hetherington comes this searing portrait of the present-day combat experience. Between 2007 and 2008, the directors made ten trips to Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, a six-mile region near the Pakistan border, at that time the focal point of the fighting between U.S. forces and the Taliban. There they dug in with the soldiers of the Second Platoon over the course of their 15-month deployment at an outpost named in honor of a fallen comrade, PFC Juan Restrepo. With unprecedented access, they chronicled the camaraderie, the tedium, and the deadly firefights that are the stuff of daily life; the result is this profoundly experiential film. After-the-fact interviews with the soldiers provide context and insight into what can be a disorienting experience for the viewer, as well as for the soldiers themselves. A nonfiction companion piece to Academy Award®-winning film The Hurt Locker.

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