The Film
ANOTHER KIND OF COURAGE features moving performances by veterans artists and family members expressing their experiences with war and homecoming. The poets are Jan Barry, Kevin Basl, Chantelle Bateman, Jeremy Stainthorp Berggren, Lovella Calica, Jacob George, Charles H. Johnson, Jennifer Pacanowski, Brian Turner, Jon Turner and Eli Wright. The powerful, original music is written by Tomás Doncker and Yusef Komunyakaa and performed by Tomás Doncker & The True Groove All-Stars. Another Kind of Courage performance was conceived and directed by Martin Jude Farawell for the Dodge Poetry Festival at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Poets spoke their truths, bringing their stories to the 17,000 in attendance at the festival – moving some in the audience to tears, but more importantly, educating and advocating for change. This film of the performance is a collaboration between Warrior Writers and the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, produced by Lovella Calica, Lynn Estomin and Martin Farawell, and directed/edited by Lynn Estomin.
Trailer
Screenings
Grand Rapids Feminist Film Festival, Grand Rapids, MI, April 14, 2024
Hang on to Your Shorts Film Festival, Red Bank, NJ, Apr. 5, 2024
Iconic Images film Festival, Goštauto, Vilnius, Lithuania, Feb. 8, 2024
Symbiotic Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine, Jan. 13, 2024
Venus Community Awards, İstanbul, Turkey, Dec. 31, 2023
Down East Film Festival, Kinston, NC, Nov. 16-19, 2023
Digital FilmFest, TwitchTV, Nov. 6, 2023
Full Circle Fine Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Oct. 21-Nov. 18, 2023
SemiFinalist, FilmArte Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, Oct. 2, 2023
Imagining New Futures, Columbus, GA, Oct. 20-22, 2023
29th Annual Twin Rivers Media Festival, Ashville, NC, June 17, 2023
2023 Michican City Public Library Video Festival, Michigan City, IN, May 6, 2023
Tortona Indie Film, Tortona, Piemonte, Italy, Nov. 14-18, 2022
Down East Flick Fest, Greenville, NC, Nov. 17-20, 2022
The Women's Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA, August 20, 2022
Social Justice International Film Festival, Seattle, WA, October 7-17, 2021
International Social Change Film Festival (ChangeFest), Chicago, IL/NYC/Los Angeles, CA
Sept. 25/26, Oct. 9/10; Oct. 23/24, Nov. 6/7, 2021
Films for Peace Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, September 25, 2021
Freedom Festival International, Columbia, SC, August 19 – 22, 2021
307 International Festival, Laramie, WY, August 28, 2021.
Contact
Lynn Estomin, estomin@lycoming.edu