Heroes
26 minutes, 2006


Opening Film, Cincinnati Women's Film Festival, Cincinnati, OH
Bay Street Film Festival, Thunder Bay, Canada
7 Islands International Film Festival, Mumbai, India
Honorable Mention, Berkeley Film & Video Festival, CA
Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY
Electric City Film Festival, Scranton, PA
In War/At War: The Practice of Everyday, Champaign, IL
Eyes Wide Open, Millersville, PA
Southside Film Festival, Bethlehem, PA
2007 Documentary Festival, Lewisburg, PA
Free Speech TV, National Broadcast

 

Heroes looks at the war in Iraq through the eyes of two Americans: Celeste Zappala. whose son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was killed in an explosion in Baghdad and Patrick Resta, who served as Army medic in Iraq. From high school recruiting to lack of supplies and armor to injured Iraqi children, the stories are powerful and alarming. Heroes blends interviews about the personal experience of members of the National Guard with Ritsu Katsumata's haunting musical score and striking images to tell a story ignored by the mainstream media.