Film makers Kevin Lombard and Judith Ann Paixao have started a school to help wounded veterans film production and editing skills.
They are among 19 marines in one of the more unconventional film and media production schools around, the Wounded Marine Careers Foundation, a 10-week apprenticeship program guided by film industry veterans.
Here, a student casually peels off his shirt to reveal indentations and stitches crisscrossing a shoulder nearly obliterated by rifle fire. Another hikes up a pant leg to explain how his prosthetic limb works. And one, in the quiet of a “mess hall,†a store house for props, speaks of the nightmares that rob him of sleep.
But it is also a place where marines, most them in their 20s, see a path to dreams and a way to overcome their disabilities, with the guarantee of membership in the main production crew union at the end and producers already calling for their services.
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Good luck
I’m looking for assistance in developing a medium to do the following. Primarily, pitch B&R Tactical but at the same time produce a greater awareness, a shocking, wet my pants, sobbed with tears, OMG I had no idea, how can I help, how much do you need, here is a signed check to support what you are doing… Video, audio, sensory experience that will at the very least slap some folks out there enough to wake up. My project is geared towards a few things… Building a better first responder community with veterans, getting first responders and veterans trained thru better programs, getting veterans, with an emphasis on the combat wounded veteran back to work, more empowering and less enabling (VA) of wounded vets, and supporting other organizations such as your thru funding. As a non profit organization (pending) money we make above and beyond operational and program costs go back into organizations that support veterans.
What I need. Help to produce an interactive production will will serve as a project intro, a sales pitch, part of my business plan, raise funds.
PS. I am a wounded warrior as well.
Thank you.
Ben Baar