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Throughout Italy, dogs are abandoned casually.

In rural Sicily, one man saves the dogs he can, especially those being poisoned.

Raised on homesteads, Brian and Shelby’s move to the city to work for two of the largest corporations on the planet seemed to be a tacit rejection of their upbringings. So with rising temperatures and cost of living, it’s no wonder that their search for meaning, fulfillment, and a closer connection to their food lead them right back to a self-sufficient and rural way of life still second nature to them. 

But it has revealed where lies the answer:

In the health of their biodiverse soil.

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A systems program manager and his wife trade their corporate lives for one of biological farming, permaculture, and a sustainable way of living driven primarily by the health of their soil.

But the rototilling, chemical-based, and mono-crop culture of the 1950s that they’d learned as kids, which relies exclusively on the manual delivery of nutrients and chemicals, was no longer working. Each year’s yield was worse than the last. 

In a journey for Brian and Shelby to rediscover a way of life, the process of disconnecting from nearly century-old agricultural systems hasn’t revealed a simple answer to the question of sustainability and crop health. 

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An encounter with a mysterious stranger brings unsettling premonitions, sending Marshall Walker on a desperate race through memory and time to reunite with his estranged daughter Charlotte and undo a fateful mistake, or risk being trapped between worlds forever.

In imagining this film, we've asked the essential question, how would the frequency of the U.S.’s involvement in foreign conflicts change if we evaluated not just the financial cost of conducting war, but also weighed against war's benefits the impact upon the warriors' families and entire communities when they return? Departing from the standard set by other films that take the point of view of the war-torn soldier, The After War asks what does war do to Jennifer? How does war impact their impressionable son Danny, who is capable of both tremendous discovery and potential destruction? 

This deeper look at the effect of war rippling into our communities asks us, was war worth it? The After War is the story of the day the Wilson family crumbles, the day that the bill for war is handed to the innocents for payment.

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We tally the cost of war in lives, but for one military family, the greatest cost is yet to be paid.

Inspired by the 2013 Department of Veteran's Affairs report that found a shocking twenty-two U.S. veterans commit suicide each day, The After War is a narrative short film that takes on the subject of the difficulties our returning soldiers face, but from the perspective of a soldier's wife Jennifer, on the day that her mentally ill and estranged husband is on the verge of suicide and her eight year old son has vanished.