S7 Ep. 22: Veterans Journey Home Director/Filmmaker Frederick Marx

Filmmaker Frederick Marx – Veterans Journey Home

Frederick Marx is an internationally acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy nominated director/writer with 45 years in the film business. He was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award.

Frederick is the founder of Warrior Films, a non-profit production company whose mission is to inspire needed social change by telling compelling stories highlighting transformational solutions.

To support this mission, Warrior Films recently put the finishing touches on Veterans Journey Home. This five-film series tells a different kind of “Hero’s Journey” than the one the public is used to. Not the tales of heroism and valor on the battlefield but the story of Veterans willing to fight the battle of the demons within – to find emotional and psychological peace with the ghosts of past decisions and actions. This hero’s journey requires a different kind of bravery, not facing bullets and IEDs, but facing tears of anguish and loss, facing acceptance of extreme fear, facing rage at betrayal, facing paralyzing self-doubt and shame, facing judgments of self-hatred.

The Veterans in the films, different across race, class, and culture – men and women, African Americans and Latinos, gay and straight…flesh out the different storylines. Their differing backgrounds and experiences express the full range of combat soldiery. Challenged by unemployment, rape, child abuse, homelessness, suicidal ideation, drug and alcohol addiction and more, what we witness through them is an emotional hurricane. Though at times terrifying, shocking, and emotionally wrenching, their stories of transformation ultimately prove tremendously uplifting, filled with humor and spirit, buoyed all the more by the expansive hearts of the men and women who serve them.

(Credit: WarriorFilms.org)

 

Warrior Films - https://warriorfilms.org/

 

Veterans Journey Home:

 

Veterans Journey Home - https://warriorfilms.org/veterans-journey-home/

 

Solutions Trailer – https://bit.ly/3Z6ul1B

 

On Black Mountain Trailer – http://bit.ly/3FEw6vQ

 

Kalani’s Story Trailer – http://bit.ly/3ndocDy

 

Ben’s Story Trailer – http://bit.ly/3ndo0nO

 

Leaving it on The Land Trailer - http://bit.ly/3TzkO1z

 

Other Films by Frederick Marx:

 

Hoop Dreams Trailer - https://bit.ly/3JwJJyw

 

The Unspoken Trailer - https://bit.ly/3ltLqVg

 

Books by Frederick Marx:

 

Rites to a Good Life - https://bit.ly/3LXbkf9

 

At Death do Us Part - https://bit.ly/3lp6TyN

 

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