Poster Girl (film)

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Poster Girl
Directed bySara Nesson
Produced by Mitchell Block and Sara Nesson
StarringRobynn Murray
CinematographySara Nesson
Edited byGeof Bartz
Music by Miriam Cutler
Production
company
Portrayal Films
Distributed byVirgil Films and Entertainment
Release date
  • September 3, 2010 (2010-09-03)(Telluride)
Running time
38 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Poster Girl is a 2010 documentary film about an American soldier's experience with posttraumatic stress disorder after returning from the Iraq War. [1] The film showed at the 37th Telluride Film Festival on September 3, 2010. [2] It was named as a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 83rd Academy Awards on January 25, 2011 [3] but lost to Strangers No More . [4]

The documentary short film is a production of Portrayal Films and was conceived and produced by Mitchell Block and directed and photographed by Sara Nesson. [5]

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References

  1. "Poster Girl | Iraq Veterans Against the War". Ivaw.org. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  2. "37th Telluride Film Festival Program Guide" (PDF). telluridefilmfestival.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 28, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  3. "Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences . Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  4. Rojas, Rick (February 27, 2011). "Oscars: 'Strangers No More' wins for documentary short". Los Angeles Times Awards Tracker. Retrieved February 28, 2011.
  5. "At the Intersection of Art and Commerce" Archived 2011-12-13 at the Wayback Machine