Alumnae Talleah Bridges (M.A. broadcast journalism, '02) and Megan (Parlen) Schwartzman (M.A. broadcast journalism, '05) worked on a film that is a 2008 Academy Award nominee for "Best Documentary Feature."
Associate producer Bridges and production coordinator Schwartzman both worked on Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which aired on PBS and in theaters.
Operation Homecoming explores the firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women through their own words. The film is built upon a project created by the National Endowment for the Arts to gather the writing of servicemen and women and their families who have participated in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Through interviews and dramatic readings, the film transforms selections from this collection of writing into a deep examination of the experiences of the men and women who are serving in America’s armed forces. At the same time it provides depth and context to these experiences through a broader look at the universal themes of war literature.
The writing in the documentary covers the full spectrum — poetry, fiction, memoir, letters, journals and essays.
