GI Film Festival 2007 D.C. Premier Operation Homecoming

Nominated for Academy Award

Arlington, Virginia – The GI Film Festival, which will be held Armed Forces Weekend, May 14-18, 2008 in Washington, DC, is pleased to announce that its 2007 Washington, DC premier film Operation Homecoming has been nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Feature Documentary.  The film was produced by The Documentary Group and directed by Richard Robbins.

Operation Homecoming is based in large part on an anthology of poems, essays, journals and letters featured in Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, published by Random House and edited by award winning author Andy Carroll.  Carroll, author of the books Grace under Fire and War Letters, served on the GI Film Festival’s “War Stories” panel in 2007.

“It is a tremendous thrill for the GI Film Festival to screen an Oscar nominated film in the festival’s first year,” said GI Film Festival Chairman and CEO Brandon Millett.  “Congratulations to Richard Robbins and the Documentary Group for producing a film that so eloquently reflects the true wartime experience of the American GI.”  

For more information on GI Film Festival 2008, visit www.gifilmfestival.com.

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Brandon L. Millett
President
GI Film Festival
(800) 928-6307, Ext. 102
Brandon@gifilmfestival.com