AFS Fiscally Sponsored Project
TFPF 2007 RECIPIENT
$11,000 for production
TFPF 2005 RECIPIENT
$4,000 for production
$200 in Media Toolbox tape stock
“The money, which is like $20,000 when you sign up, kind of pulls you in,” says Dominic about why he and eight of his friends joined the National Guard. In WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM, Director Heather Courtney goes back to her hometown in rural northern Michigan, to follow the lives of this group of 20-year old friends before, during, and after their National Guard deployment in Iraq. This film goes beyond the current Iraq war film genre by using the U.S. invasion of Iraq to explore the universal and timeless issue of class in America.