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"Hell And Back Again", documentary by Temple grad student, Nominated for Oscars

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/23/12 10:36 am | updated: 01/23/12 10:36 am

This week, Academy Award nominations are announced, and a documentary edited by a grad student at Temple University is on the short list.

Chosen out of 124 films, "Hell and Back Again", which chronicles the life of a Marine deployed to Afghanistan, is one of 15 on the short list for Best Documentary Feature.

Temple grad student Fiona Otway says her role in the process was quite complicated, is thrilled that the film could get an Oscar nod, but she is more focused on what the film shows and teaches the world.

The documentary chronicles the life of Sgt. Nathan Harris, a 25-year-old Marine, who is deployed to Afghanistan, shot in the hip and comes home.

Temple grad student Fiona Otway says her role in the process was quite complicated. It took weeks to watch more than 100 hours of footage.

She spent hours collaborating with the filmâ€™s director, Danfung Dennis, who she says lived with the Marines in Afghanistan for six weeks.

â€œDanfung and I spent a lot of time talking about his experience being embedded in Afghanistan and what he had witnessed over there.â€

â€œItâ€™s an incredibly visceral and intimate portrait of what itâ€™s like to go to war and come home again. The footage is absolutely stunning and unlike what many people have seen before. It gives you an intimate view of a world that you may not see otherwise.â€

Hell and Back Again is currently in theatres.

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