Hell and Back Again
Working Films, with the presenting partners of Danfung Dennis and his team, The Fledgling Fund and Impact Partners, is directing an audience and community engagement campaign to take the film out of the sometimes-rarified realm of independent documentaries and embed this moving story directly in crucial new efforts to support veterans and to educate the general public about vets’ extraordinary service and their needs on returning home.
From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan,
photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating
impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old
Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from stunning
war reportage to an intimate, visceral portrait of one man’s personal
struggle at home in North Carolina, where Harris confronts the physical
and emotional difficulties of re-adjusting to civilian life with the
love and support of his wife, Ashley. Masterfully contrasting the
intensity of the frontline with the unsettling normalcy of home, Hell and Back Again lays bare the true cost of war.
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