Third Annual “GI Film Festival” to Showcase World’s Best Military Films

“Seven Days in May” to Highlight 48 Films Honoring American GIs

 May 11-17, Washington, DC

Arlington, Virginia – GI Film Festival co-founders Brandon Millett and Major Laura Law-Millett announced today the line-up for the Third Annual festival showcasing the world’s best military films.  The festival will run from May 11-17, 2009 at the prestigious Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC and other DC area venues, including the Canadian Embassy and the Russell Senate Caucus Room.  The award-winning GI Film Festival is the first and only film festival in the nation dedicated to honoring American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines through the medium of film.  (See www.gifilmfestival.com for more information.) 

The GI Film Festival is not only the premiere film festival honoring America’s troops but also the most significant film festival in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area.  Major corporate sponsors for 2009 festival include among others:  Target Corporation; TriWest Healthcare Alliance; America’s Huey 091 Foundation; Pence-Friedel Developers, Inc; USO International; MGM/UA; HBO, Inc.; American Military University, and Discovery Communications’ “The Military Channel.”  (more…)

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Marine Filmmaker Featured at Festival

There are many Iraq War documentaries on the market, but few are as exciting and honest as “Triangle of Death,” directed by first time filmmaker Marine CPL Folleh Tamba.  Triangle of Death shares the story of the marines of Echo Company 3rd Platoon as they endured life changing experiences, fought a war, trained a nation’s army, endured daily mortar and sniper fire, and managed to survive a year in Iraq’s deadliest zone, the triangle of death. The marines of 2/24 worked together through these hardships to create the only outcome they could imagine in their world: Mission Accomplishment. (more…)

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