April 24, 2013

2013 GI Film Festival schedule released

By The American Legion
Public Relations
2013 GI Film Festival schedule released
2013 GI Film Festival schedule released

Seventh annual event to feature GIFF fundraiser, first presentation of Audience Choice Award.

The GI Film Festival (GIFF) – the nation’s only military-themed film festival – is gearing up for its seventh annual event May 6-12 in Washington.

More than 40 productions, spanning documentaries, narratives, student films and more, will be screened throughout the week. The screenings will be interspersed with a workshop, a fundraiser, receptions – including one for wounded warriors at which American Legion representatives will distribute Operation Comfort Warriors gifts – and a "Best of Festival Awards" show that will feature the first presentation of an Audience Choice Award.

According to GIFF co-founder/president Brandon Millett, this year’s entries feature "lots of World War II and Vietnam." But also to be screened are the five winning films from the festival’s "Heroes Remembered: Voices of Korean War Veterans" oral history high school education initiative. View the full 2013 official trailer on the GIFF website. (http://gifilmfestival.com/)

The GI Film Festival is a 501c(3) nonprofit educational organization dedicated to sharing the military experience in and out of the arena of war. The Legion supports the festival via resolution and presented Millett and co-founder/director Laura Law-Millett with the National Commander’s Public Relations Award at the Washington Conference in 2010.

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