Standing Up - Trailer

Main Website: www.standingupthemovie.com

* Trailer Music: New World In My View - By King Britt

[Synopsis]

STANDING UP is a feature length documentary about young Afghan men training to become professional soldiers in the new Afghan National Army. Situated at the Kabul Military Training Center, Standing Up chronicles the struggles and lives of these Afghan men from the moment they arrive at the KMTC to the last day of training of their training. Extensive access to the KMTC training program has provided an insiders perspective into one of the most underreported and important stories in the War Against Terror, the story of those who are Standing Up to the first line of defense.


[About of the Director]

In June 2006 the documentary-maker Waise Azimi embedded at Camp Alamo, the Coalition partner-base to the KMTC. He spent four months with the men of Battalion 55 of the Afghan National Army and alongside US and Canadian soldiers from the Combat Arms and Collective Exercise Training sections of Training Assistance Group V. Previously, in 2003 Waise Azimi made Afghanistan After, a short film about how Afghan society had changed two years after the fall of the Taliban. Waise Azimi earned a degree in Sociology from Bard College in 2005, he currently lives in the capital of the Philippines, Metro Manila.


[Previous Exhibitions]

37th International Film Festival Rotterdam -- Official Selection- Holland (2008)

Kontra Agos: A Resistance Film Festival -- Official Selection -- Philippines (2007)

7th Urban Nomad Film Festival -- Opening Film -- Taiwan (2008)

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival (2008)


[Future Exhibitions]

Cinemalaya: Philippine Independent Film Festival (2008)

Washington DC National Gallery of Art: Film Series on Afghanistan -- Official Selection (2008)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• documentary
• trailer
• Afghanistan
• war
• peace
• military
• army
• trainining
• waronterror

[Fedaykin4321]

You can't find it because the HBO series True Blood just used it as their end credits song in the new episode. WMG has made sure none of those tracks can be found.

[swishypunkgurl]

why why why can't i find any video recording of this king britt song???? On a positive note I think this is a beautiful short/preview and the song fits it perfectly!

[dadaimiza]

(b1ackspiral)Waise,good luck at Rotterdam!

[kinoblo]

Waise, Good Luck at Rotterdam!

Bring home the Bacon.

-- Raymund Cruz

[augustindira]

i loved the movie since i saw it. the trailer's great, too, but my one comment is that red fixed-spaced font (i.e., some variant of Courier) centered on a black background is sort of cliche for a film about conflict/war. maybe something a bit less on-the-nose?

[sultansunjer]

when is this going to come out??

[dadaimiza]

Go b1ackspiral!  :)

[kinoblo]

I think I hear the word "Cannes" in the air.. :)

-- Raymund