King High Remembers

Some folks who are making a documentary about how students are learning about the military from veterans at one school, Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California. The name of the documentary is King High Remembers. To help the students learn about the military, they brought a number of veterans into the school to answer their questions;

Our documentary short, “King High Remembers,” is about the evolution of a living history project at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California. It brings together hundreds of military veterans and hundreds of high school history students and gives the veterans an opportunity to share their stories and experiences so that the students can help preserve their history.

Fellow documentarian, Brandon Krajewski and I, spent the better part of a year taking over 25 hours of footage and reducing it down to 40 minutes. We have a rough cut at this point, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. The hardest part now is raising the funds to help us both finish post-production and send it out to as many places as we can.

So they’re asking us to help them raise the money to produce this documentary. We’re always complaining about how civilians don’t take the time to understand us, well, here’s a way to help them understand. The documentary’s producers claim that their goal is to encourage other schools to start their own project, and I think that’s pretty much what we all want. You can click over to their Indiegogo donation page and throw them a couple of tax-deductible bucks.

Category: Support the troops