“Eleven” is my latest 25-minute documentary that explores the lives of eleven veterans who have served from World War II up until today. This film was a project of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at The University of Connecticut.
Interesting backstory; Dr. Brian Chapman, Director of Outreach and the OLLI program, is my former employer. I worked for the OLLI program during college and continued to work there after I had graduated. During my time there, I helped promote the program through shooting promotional films and the like. I have since moved on to shooting and directing full time, however Dr. Chapman and I have remained in contact, and he thus approached me to produce a film for OLLI’s annual Special Veterans Day ceremony at the campus. Last year, Dr. Chapman and Lucien Lafreniere (producer on Eleven) were able to screen James Gandolfini’s WarTorn for the event before it was even released. This year, they approached me to collaborate on a film of our own for the event. For anyone who has seen WarTorn, this is a very high watermark. It is an incredibly powerful film.
