Nara Garber & Betsy Nagler’s Flat Daddy is released on VOD on November 6. The following was originally published on the eve of its Doc NYC premiere in 2011.
In the corpus of documentaries that have come out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’ve seen a gradual progression from the outward to the inward — immersive forays into the battlefield giving way to subtler studies of the wartime psyche. Yet the majority of them have focused on the soldier’s experience of war. Flat Daddy sets itself apart by focusing on the people who feel war perhaps the deepest: military families put on hold or torn apart by the absence of their loved ones serving abroad.
Directed by Nara Garber and Betsy Nagler, the film takes its name from the life-sized cardboard cutouts of servicemen and women (interchangeably called “Flat Daddies,” “Flat Mommies” or “Flat Soldiers”) designed to help families...
In the corpus of documentaries that have come out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’ve seen a gradual progression from the outward to the inward — immersive forays into the battlefield giving way to subtler studies of the wartime psyche. Yet the majority of them have focused on the soldier’s experience of war. Flat Daddy sets itself apart by focusing on the people who feel war perhaps the deepest: military families put on hold or torn apart by the absence of their loved ones serving abroad.
Directed by Nara Garber and Betsy Nagler, the film takes its name from the life-sized cardboard cutouts of servicemen and women (interchangeably called “Flat Daddies,” “Flat Mommies” or “Flat Soldiers”) designed to help families...
- 11/2/2012
- by Daniel James Scott
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In the corpus of documentaries that have come out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’ve seen a gradual progression from the outward to the inward — immersive forays into the battlefield giving way to subtler studies of the wartime psyche. Yet the majority of them have focused on the soldier’s experience of war. Flat Daddy, premiering at Doc NYC this Sunday at 4Pm and screening again on Nov. 8th at 1:30, sets itself apart by focusing on the people who feel war perhaps the deepest: military families put on hold or torn apart by the absence of their loved ones serving abroad.
Directed by Nara Garber and Betsy Nagler, the film takes its name from the life-sized cardboard cutouts of servicemen and women (interchangeably called “Flat Daddies,” “Flat Mommies” or “Flat Soldiers”) designed to help families connect with their relatives during their deployments. Originating from the Iraq War,...
Directed by Nara Garber and Betsy Nagler, the film takes its name from the life-sized cardboard cutouts of servicemen and women (interchangeably called “Flat Daddies,” “Flat Mommies” or “Flat Soldiers”) designed to help families connect with their relatives during their deployments. Originating from the Iraq War,...
- 11/4/2011
- by Daniel James Scott
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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The idea behind the third (and counting) installment in Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg’s delirious Harold and Kumar series seems to have been the following: Take virtually every staple genre of the Hollywood cinematic experience — buddy flick, check! Road movie, caper pic, fish-out-of-water thriller, culture-clash comedy, done! Showbiz musical spectacular? Feel-good holiday special? Yep, we’ve got that! — and throw ‘em in a BlendTec. Add Neil Patrick Harris and a double fistful of other mind-altering substances. Then hit...
The idea behind the third (and counting) installment in Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg’s delirious Harold and Kumar series seems to have been the following: Take virtually every staple genre of the Hollywood cinematic experience — buddy flick, check! Road movie, caper pic, fish-out-of-water thriller, culture-clash comedy, done! Showbiz musical spectacular? Feel-good holiday special? Yep, we’ve got that! — and throw ‘em in a BlendTec. Add Neil Patrick Harris and a double fistful of other mind-altering substances. Then hit...
- 11/4/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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