Posts Tagged ‘Upper Peninsula’

Where Soldiers Come From

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Co-produced and directed by Heather Courtney
This low-key documentary begins with all the hallmarks of a working class drama but unfolds into the kind of slower-moving “hippie” film initially disdained by its unlikely heroes, a crew of buddies from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The combat footage is startling (director Courtney embedded with the platoon to capture it), [...]