“In Their Boots” Film Project Launches National Tour
Mar 16 2009
“In Their Boots,” a documentary film project that began early in 2008, is hitting the road for a 10-month national tour to raise awareness about the challenges facing U.S. servicemembers and exploring ways to improve veteran care. The new documentary about these issues will be released during the 10-city tour, which begins in March.
In its first year, it produced 12 documentaries, released them in a weekly Webcast online at www.intheirboots.com, and generated substantial media coverage in its effort to raise awareness for the sacrifices servicemembers, veterans, and their families are making as our country continues to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A three-minute summary of the work from 2008 can be seen at http://intheirboots.blip.tv/#1847450.
The tentative schedule is as follows:
- March, San Francisco — A who’s who crowd of the veteran’s community in Northern California for the Premiere of Broken Promise. Broken Promise raises the issue of mental health care for returning veterans, and offers a model for the VA to consider to improve its mental health care treatment.
- April, Houston — explore the complexities of traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- May, Washington, D.C. — to highlight the problem of homelessness among veterans and effective ways to address it.
- June, Atlanta — to demonstrate the need for “veteran’s courts” and alternative sentencing to support veterans in their efforts to reintegrate when they return home.
- July, Chicago — to examine the impact on children of losing a family member in the war.
These events are all free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.intheirboots.com.
