Documentary Highlighting Military Families to Screen at Atlanta Film Festival

Synopsis:

Only 1% of Americans currently serve in the U.S. Military, and their families have borne thedisproportionate burden of more than a decade at war. Many have turned to “Flat Daddies” and"Heroes on a Stick," life-sized cardboard cutouts of their husbands, wives, parents and children servingoverseas, to ease the pain of repeated deployments. Using these two-dimensional surrogates as aconnecting thread, Flat Daddy follows four such families over the course of a year to explore the lastingimpact of the war on those left behind. (RT: 82 minutes)