RESTREPO Screening

June 27th, 2010 by zen

Will be going to this Sunday night with Lex and Charles Cameron, Madhu and some of the cast of Chicago Boyz. Also present will be some of the gents from the popular milblog, BLACKFIVE and veterans groups in the Chicago area.

WAR by Sebastian Junger was the book that was written in conjunction with this documentary; Junger will be on hand to answer audience questions. I am sure there will be a number of blog reviews of this screening come Monday and I will attempt to link to them all here when I write my own.

Deserving accolades for organizing this screening, a sizable undertaking, are Kanani Fong and Laura Kim. They have reached out to many people in this endeavor and extended every courtesy to veterans support groups and bloggers in particular.

RESTREPO opens to the public on July 2nd.

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5 comments on this post.

onparkstreet:

June 27th, 2010 at 10:44 pm

No go, unfortunately. On call, and called in.
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Apologies to all, and thanks to Kanani Fong for organizing such an event. Wonderful work.
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– Madhu
Karaka:

June 28th, 2010 at 11:19 pm

Aw, I’m a bit jealous. Hope you enjoy the film, I can’t wait to see it myself.
zen:

June 29th, 2010 at 1:28 am

I did, both film and company. Too bad Madhu could not make it. About to write the review now….
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