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These women universally express the conviction that their stories can provide a common thread of compassion to bind the wounds that divide people in the U.S. and Vietnam. They feel a particular bond with American wives and mothers who have shared their pain and fought similar battles to preserve the values of home, family, and tradition against the corrosive influences of war, greed, and 'progress.' Mel Halbach, Director 'The Long Haired Warriors'
FILMMAKER BIOGRAPHY Mel Halbach Mel's six trips to Vietnam dating back to 1991 has culminated in his award winning documentary The Long Haired Warriors. His other film awards include Best Documentary, Experimental for The Game at the Ann Arbor Film Festival; Best of Show for The Game at the 1991 Utah Film and Video Festival, and Honorable Mention for Malignant at the Oswego Film Festival in New York. He has twice been the recipient of the Mort Rosenfeld Award honoring Utah film makers of promise. Mel has produced and edited three other Vietnam shorts and is currently the Editor and Assistant Cinematographer for another feature length Vietnam documentary, The Healing Continues, produced and directed by Carla Woodmansee. Mel received a B.S. in Secondary Education from the University of Wisconsin Madison and an M.F.A. in film from the University of Utah. Mel is an Associate Instructor of film and is currently the producer/director of the Media Center at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.
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