GI FILM FESTIVAL FACT SHEET - Amazon S3EPK.pdf · Brandon Millett is an award-winning communicator, writer, producer and media entrepreneur. Millett is currently CEO of the GI Film

Company: GI Film Festival

Date Founded: 2006

Mission: The GI Film Festival, also known as “Sundance for the Troops, is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the stories of military veterans through film, television and dynamic live special events. GI Film Festival films cover every film genre, every American conflict and every branch of service, helping to connect service-members to society and facilitate their transition home.

The Festival GI Film Festival DC is now entering its 10th season (GIFF X). In 2016, GIFF X will feature 70+ film screenings and premieres, celebrity appearances, red carpet events, filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, after parties, the festival’s popular Filmmaker Boot Camp and special events dedicated to women serving in the military and Wounded Warriors. GIFF will also host its “Best of Fest” awards event with awards presented to filmmakers in the following categories: Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Narrative Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Student Film, Best Female Director, the Founder’s Choice Award and a Military Filmmaker Award. GIFF will also present an award for Best Screenplay.

Founders: Army Veteran Laura Law-Millett and Brandon Millett

Headquarters: Alexandria, VA

Notable Speakers and Participants:

Adam Driver (Actor and 2014 GI Spirit Award Recipient), Robert Duvall (Actor and GI Film Festival Speaker), Glenn Close (Actor, Filmmaker and Panel Participant), Michelle Monaghan (Actress and GI Film Festival Speaker), Wynonna Judd (Singer, Actor and 2013 GI Spirit Award Recipient) Gary Sinise (Actor and 2007 GI Spirit Award Recipient), Lou Diamond Phillips (Actor and 2011 GI Spirit Award Recipient), Peter Berg (Director and 2014 Guest Presenter) Joe Mantegna (Actor and 2012 GI Spirit Award Recipient), Kelsey Grammer (2008 Special Guest), Rick Flair, US Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, Ricky Schroder (Actor and GI Spirit Award Recipient), Pat Sajak (Host and Presenter), General (Ret.) Richard Myers, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Former Army Chiefs of Staff General Ray Odierno, and General (Retired) George Casey. Congressional Speakers have included: Senator John McCain, Senator Joe Manchin, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Rep. Sam Johnson, Rep. Loretta Sanchez and Rep. Jeff Miller.

Success Stories:

• After its 2015 premiere at the GI Film Festival, narrative short “Day One” was nominated for an Academy Award for 2016 Short Film (Live Action).

• “Fort Bliss,” a narrative feature film directed by Claudia Myers and starring Michele Monaghan and Ron Livingston, hosted its World Premiere at GIFF 2014, earning a theatrical release and an on-demand distribution deal.

• “Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power,” a feature documentary directed by Michael Pack, hosted its World Premiere at GIFF 2014 and earned its national broadcast premiere on PBS in December 2014.

• “Honor Flight,” a feature documentary directed by Dan Hayes, which premiered at GIFF in 2013 taking home the festival’s Best Feature Documentary Award, holds the Guinness record for the largest audience to ever attend a film screening: 28,442.

• Actor Glenn Close made her directorial debut with the premiere of “Pax” at the 2008 GI Film Festival.

GI FILM FESTIVAL FACT SHEET

COMING MAY 21 - 29 Washington DC and Fairfax, VA

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OUTSTANDING MILITARY FILM

10YEARSof [email protected] (800) 928-6307 gifilmfestival.comREEL STORIES. REAL HEROES.

2016 OFFICIAL FILM SELECTIONS

A Soldier’s Story – Major Stephen ReichAbsent Without LoveAdventurmentalismAlmost HomeAmerican Elements: Taya KyleAmerican GirlCease FireCold Winter’s NightDarrylDevil’s WorkEmbedded Escape From Firebase KateFirst Person ShooterForced LandingFrogmanGlasses ForgotGoodman’s SaluteGrief SleepsHealing Soul WoundsHer Unlikely KinHeroes On Deck: World War Ii On Lake MichiganI Did Not Forget YouJeremiahJupiter and MercuryJust a Common SoldierKisifumKnown Unto GodLast Man ClubLetters - A Hero’s Journey to The Medal Of HonorLiving for The Ones Who Can’t Lost in TimeLuft GangsterMister MorvilloMr. OvertonNaptown FunkNo Greater LoveOn The Wrong SideOperation Allie

OutpostPaper LanternsPromise Me Range 15Remember Fort PillowReturn to Dak ToReturn to Iwo JimaRide The Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Victory And BetrayalRising FearScarletStandSteel LeavesTango On the BalconyTenderThank You for Your ServiceThe Art of Human SalvageThe Captain: A Bond of BrotherhoodThe Christmas You Don’t KnowThe FogThe Last Time I Heard True SilenceThe LetterThe Long Way BackThe Road HomeThe Unimaginable Journey of Peter ErtelThe Year of the Tiger – JFK 1962Their Finest HourThirteen HoursThree FingersTo Those Who ServeTop GunTouristUncanny Valley USS IndianapolisWarriorWe Answered the CallWe Men Are LionsWinged WarriorsX-MEN: Apocalypse

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2016 SCREENPLAY FINALISTS

Black Powder by Eleanor Labine

USNB-22

by Warren R. Hull

The Interlude by Paul G. O’Connor

Big Men by Levi C.B. Preston

The Blade by Dempsey Tillman

A-L-L by Robert Holt

Terminus by Fred Perry

Fearless by Judy Watkins

Jackrabbit by Eric Carlson

Old Soldiers Never Die by David Brock

Range 15No Greater Love

Thank You for Your Service

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J.W. CORTES

VAL KILMER

PABLO SCHREIBER

GARY SINISE

CHRIS PARONTO

DANNY TREJO

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SCHEDULED TALENT


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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band Live at Howard Theatre

6:30 pm

SATURDAY, MAY 21

Last Man Club12:15 pm

SUNDAY, MAY 22

The Luft Gangster2:30 pmWomen in the Military Panel with Angie Ricketts, Sue Fulton, Kate Hoit and Bobette Brown

Film Screenings: American Girl, The Road Home, Three Fingers, American Elements: Taya Kyle

4:20 pm

Congressional Reception5:30 pm

MONDAY, MAY 23

International Film Night at the Canadian Embassy

Films: Absent Without Love, Kisifum, On the Wrong Side, Just a Common Soldier, Warrior

6:00 pm

TUESDAY, MAY 24

30th Anniversary of Top Gun screening with Val Kilmer

7:00 pm

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25

X-Men: Apocalypse Advance Screening7:00 pm

THURSDAY, MAY 26

Filmmaker Boot Camp10:00 am

FRIDAY, MAY 27

Vietnam Film Block

Films: Escape from Firebase Kate, WETA: Vietnam Memorial, Return to Dak To

12:00 pm

Civil War, WW1, WW2, Cold War Film Block

Films: Remember Fort Pillow, Cease Fire, The Year of the Tiger, Winged Warriors,

2:45 pm

No Greater Love5:30 pmRange 158:30 pm


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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Family Surviving Beyond Film Block

Films: Grief Sleeps, A Soldiers Story: Maj Stephen Reich, Goodmans Salute, Cold Winters Night, Promise Me, Lost In Time, Frogman

10:00 am

SATURDAY, MAY 28

USS Indianapolis10:30 amSocial Repercussions of War Film Block

Films: The Capt – A Bond Of Brother-hood, Mr Overton, The Paper Lanterns, Her Unlikely Kin

12:30 pm

The Unimaginable Journey of Peter Ertel12:45 pmTransition Film Block

Films: Living For Those Who Can’t, Operation Allie, The Last Time I Heard True Silence, Almost Home, First Person Shooter, Return To Iwo Jima, We Men Are Lions, Letters: A Heroes Journey To MOH

3:00 pm

Thank You For Your Service3:15 pmOuter Limits to the Edge Film Block

Films: Uncanny, Valley Outpost, The Art Of Human Salvage, Jupiter And Mercury, Devils Work, The Christmas You Don’tKnow, The Glasses Forget, Scarlet, I Did Not Forget You

5:30 pm

Best of Fest Award Show and Film Screenings

Films: The Fog, The Long Way Back, Stand, Naptown Funk

7:45 pm

Rising Fear1:00 pm

SUNDAY, MAY 29Warrior Survival Film Block

Films: Tango On The Balcony, Embedded, Adventurmentalism, Tender, Healing Soul Wounds, Steel Leaves

10:00 am

Film Block

Films: Ride the Thunder, Project Blue Light

10:30 am

World Warriors Film Block

Films: Forced Landing, Known Unto God

12:30 pm

Vietnam Part 2 Film Block

Films: Jeremiah, Daryl, Tourist

3:15 pm

Warrior Stories Film Block

Films: We Answered The Call, To Those Who Serve, WETA: Canine Stories, Mister Morvillo, Heroes On Deck: WW2 On Lake Michigan

3:30 pm

Thirteen Hours6:30 pm

For Image Downloads and Press accreditation, please visit the GIFF Newsroom at:

gifilmfestival.com/giff-newsroom


Brandon Millett is an award-winning communicator, writer, producer and media entrepreneur. Millett is currently CEO of the GI Film Group, which supports military-themed film and television projects and Co-Founder and President of the GI Film Festival, a national non-profit organization dedicated to tell the stories of American veterans. The GI Film Festival is now in its tenth year of operations. As an entertainment professional, Millett wrote, produced and co-directed the 2016 National Cinematic Salute to the Troops, a two-hour variety show featured in 400 theaters across the country. Millett served as Executive Producer of a weekly television series, which aired for four years on The Pentagon Channel (TPC), broadcast to every military base worldwide, inside the Pentagon, and to 34 million homes via cable/satellite television. He was also the Executive Producer of a prime-time television series which aired on the Discovery Network’s American Heroes Channel in 2010. Over the last ten years, Millett has reviewed and critiqued over 2,000 military films and has helped usher hundreds of military films into the marketplace. In recognition for his work with the GI Film Group and GI Film Festival, Millett was named one of the “100 Most Influential” supporters of military veterans

in 2016 and a “non-profit innovator” by HillVets. Other honors include: The American Legion National Commander’s Public Relations Award previously presented to the late Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw, Lou Dobbs and the late Jack Valenti, the Carlton Sherwood Media Award, and the George Washington Freedom Medal. As a communications and media consultant, Millett has advised a variety of organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to non-profit start-ups. Millett’s media campaigns have earned coverage from virtually every major news outlet worldwide. As a spokesperson, Millett conducted hundreds of interviews on national radio and television programs, from the Dennis Miller Show to NPR’s To the Point, to Fox and Friends, while his written work has appeared in numerous top publications. Millett previously served as Director of Communications for the nation’s largest government watchdog organization and as Director of Publications for a national organization which trains young people for success in media and politics. Millett is a proud military spouse currently living in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and co-founder Laura Law-Millett, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and their daughter Zoe.

CO-FOUNDER BRANDON MILLETT BIO

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CO-FOUNDER LAURA LAW-MILLETT BIOLaura Law-Millett is a successful entrepreneur and the Chief Operations Officer at the GI Film Group, a full service entertainment company located in Alexandria, Virginia. Laura is also the co-founder and director of the GI Film Festival, a non-profit organization and the nation’s only military film festival.

The mission of the festival is to preserve the stories of our men and women in uniform through film, television and special events.

Films screened by the GI Film Festival have gone on to win Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, and air on Showtime, HBO, PBS, and the Military Channel as well as gain DVD and theatrical distribution deals.

Laura has also served the nation for over 14 years as an Officer in the US Army and US Army Reserves serving in Korea, Turkey, Bosnia, Germany, Colorado, Maryland, DC, and Virginia where she earned many distinguished awards. From 2006-2008 Laura was selected to be the subject of a national recruitment media campaign for the US Army reserve.

Laura also has a history of volunteering with multiple organizations including Girls Scouts, Girls On the Run, Odyssey of the Mind, Girls State and Junior Achievement. She served on former Congressman Tom Davis’ staff in Virginia to help nominate candidates for the military academies.

She also created and teaches a leadership class for at-risk high school girls. Law-Millett earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering and English Literature from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Film and TV credits include executive producing a series on the Discovery Military Channel, executive producing a feature documentary that aired on AXS TV and producing a series for The Pentagon Channel.

Most recently, Law-Millett wrote, produced and co-directed the 2016 National Cinematic Salute to the Troops, a two-hour variety show which was featured in 400 theaters across the country.


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