The Winter of The Beard - Trailer

In the fall of 2005, two filmmakers invited six men across America to join them in an experiment. They would stop shaving for six months. No trimming allowed. Each was provided a video camera and weekly interview questions to document his own experience. The resulting 600 hours of intimate footage revealed a group of men traversing the same rite of passage from disparate vantage points. Throughout the process, the men told stories from their pasts, shared likes and dislikes, and confessed personal fears and aspirations. They laughed and cried, hid and came alive behind their beards. The tireless taping captured bad days and good ones, and it is in this framework that the individual stories stand out and the beards fade into the background. From a son dealing with his father's descent into Alzheimer's, to financial and marital struggles, to the birth of a child, THE WINTER OF THE BEARD reveals the trials and tribulations of what it means to drastically alter one's appearance and otherwise go on living life.

The Winter of The Beard is now available in it's entirety for free on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/32092307

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[RhAsKoOL510]

what is the name of the song for the background music? anyone know?

[GreatSittingFilm]

@RhAsKoOL510 The song in the trailer is called "National Lights" by The Court & Spark

[Cowboyfg]

this is freaking badass

[mrwatts]

how/where can i watch this?

[VanyaKT]

A W S O M E !!

[erickus36]

I did the vimeo thing you put up there and it works! Thank you man I wanted to see that movie for so long! Thank you man!!!!!!!!!

[PaleAfternoon]

@Notled2 LOL I was thinking the same thing man. They all had really respectable beards too. All the bitching and moaning was totally ungrounded in relation to the beard growing.

[godblessdesign]

@SatanicoSaudavel

the song is on itunes

Its on the album "bless you"

concerning the movie you can write to great sitting films

they sent over the dvd super fast and without any problems.

hope it helps!

[SatanicoSaudavel]

Where can I find the song "National Lights"?

And what about the documentary? Anyone knows where I can watch this?

[Notled2]

Sitting there whining about 6 months of growing a beard? Dude, does that guy have any idea how many people would do anything to be able to grow a beard? I'm thankful for mine, and 6 months is 6 months. After that they can shave again so whats the fuss? This is stupid. The only real part was their lifes struggles, dad in wheelchair, being broke, forget the beard, it was just the mask for the true hardships people deal with, and that is why these men are respectable.

[senzarespiro]

Awesome, I went to the 6 months beard and it was so fullfilling that went I took it, I felt so untrue to myself. All my life I wanted a beard, school, job, responsibilities, all of them made me look at it as something out of my reach, after the experience, I feel that now, I am not true to myself, it is the most akward feeling, I need to grow it again, it gave me something that I can't explain!. I am growing it again!, I got now a week of growing and loving each one of them

[sainta09]

Bought it and now I have been growing my beard for almost 5 months now.... love it! I don't think that I will shave ever again!