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Ellen Goosenberg Kent is a multi-award winning filmmaker whose documentaries have been praised for their humanity and unflinching honesty in raising awareness about the stories behind the headlines.  Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 won the Academy Award in 2015 for Best Documentary, short subject and was hailed by the New York Times as “a haunting reminder of the toll war exacts from those who fight…it’s polished, tough-minded and topical, delivering a strong, clean emotional punch without feeling manipulative.” 

Crisis Hotline followed two critically acclaimed films about the wounds of war, commissioned by HBO and Executive Produced by James Gandolfini: the Emmy-nominated Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq which the Wall Street Journal called “an extraordinary film about extraordinary people, and Wartorn: 1861-2010,  a kaleidoscopic look at post traumatic stress from the Civil War to the present, that earned the Television Academy Honors in 2012 and premiered at The Pentagon. The intimacy and heart of her approach in these films helped ignite an urgently needed conversation within and outside the military about the need to de-stigmatize mental health issues and the shortage of resources to treat the psychic and moral traumas of participating in war.

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