Body of War

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Please join us at The Tivoli theater in Westport for the KC premiere of Body of War, a film by Phil Donohue about Tomas Young, an Iraq vet from KC who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet on his 5th day of duty in Iraq. Music for the film is by Eddie Vedder. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn-9Rn_6iqQ&feature=related

The film will air at 7 pm both Friday and Saturday March 7th and 8th. Tomas will be there both nights and will answer questions following the screening.

Mention you are a guest of Democracy for the Heart of America and your ticket will be discounted to $7.

Don't miss this important and touching film. You won't be disappointed.

Bring kleenex. Here's the website: http://www.bodyofwar.com/ There is a trailer there you can watch.

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1. ‘Body of War’ chronicles a paralyzed KC veteran’s fight to find peace

At rallies, wives and mothers, daughters and lovers of the war dead reached out to touch Young, as if somehow it connected them to the men they’d lost.

It takes guts to let a camera record your most intimate and embarrassing moments.

Especially if it catches your marriage falling apart, outbursts of anger and depression and physical indignities like dealing with a urinary catheter.

When Kansas Citian Tomas Young was approached about turning his life into a documentary, he wasn’t sure what he was getting into. The Iraq war veteran, paralyzed from the chest down, just knew he had a story to tell.

Now, after three years of filming and editing, “Body of War,” directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, opens Friday at the Tivoli Theatre in Westport. It’s the documentary’s first commercial run anywhere, after its big success at last fall’s Toronto International Film Festival.

“Before I started all this I couldn’t conceive being under that microscope,” Young, 27, said during a conversation in the living room of his wheelchair-accessible Northland home.


http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/columnists/robert_w_butler/story/516608.html