PLEASE HOLD and HORNET’S NEST screen Thursday June 2nd at 7:00pm at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue Maplewood, MO 63143). Jonathan Mabee, the director of PLEASE HOLD, will be in attendance for an introduction and post-screening Q&A.
It’s a pair of modern war films as part of this month’s A Film Series’ ‘Culture Shock’ event.
First up is the narrative short PLEASE HOLD (2011 – 25 minutes) written and directed by Jonathan Mabee. Jacob is an Afghanistan and Iraq war veteran who suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). And like the tens-of-thousands of other veterans in this nation, he feels isolated and alone in his search for help. Will you also let veterans be placed on hold, or will you demand action in providing the resources our heroes so desperately need?
Director Jonathan Mabee will introduce his film and will host a Q&A when it ends.
Next is the 2014 documentary HORNET’S NEST (93 minutes). Career Journalist Mike Boettcher takes his son to the war zone in Afghanistan, covering U.S. Combat Troops on the front lines. What starts out as an effort to reconnect with his son, becomes a remarkable true story and fight for survival for all. Soldiers in the film include:
1st Brigade , 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment “No Slack”
3rd Brigade, Rakkasan, 101st Airborne
4th Brigade, Currahee, 101st Airborne
2nd Battalion, 8th Marines
A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1615504078769378/
$6 for the screening. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed suds.
“Culture Shock” is the name of a film series here in St. Louis that is the cornerstone project of a social enterprise that is an ongoing source of support for Helping Kids Together(http://www.helpingkidstogether.com/) a St. Louis based social enterprise dedicated to building cultural diversity and social awareness among young people through the arts and active living.
The films featured for “Culture Shock” demonstrate an artistic representation of culture shock materialized through mixed genre and budgets spanning music, film and theater. Through ‘A Film Series’ working relationship with Schlafly Bottleworks, they seek to provide film lovers with an offbeat mix of dinner and a movie opportunities.
