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Smoke, Embers, Ash

By Alan Ng | October 2025

Directed by Ben Richardson, Smoke, Embers, Ash is the story of a young man named Ethan (Rashaan Rondo) who attends a support…

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Directed by Ben Richardson, Smoke, Embers, Ash is the story of a young man named Ethan (Rashaan Rondo) who attends a support meeting for people coping with...

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Post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) is not something that is talked about often in our culture. Neither is Alzheimer’s and having to make the extremely...

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Aaron J. Stewart's short film The Killer follows a veteran suffering from severe PTSD as he isolates himself in a rundown room on a rainy day. The story...

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NOW IN THEATERS! There’s nothing better than being taken completely off guard by how moving a film is. On its face, Ally Pankiw’s SXSW hit I Used to Be...

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AWARD THIS 2023 NOMINEE! Richard Poller's documentary, The Irritable Heart, brings awareness to the issue of PTSD in the military. The writer-director...

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Luying Wang's short film, Where the Flowers Bloom, follows Diana (Dina Selimovic), a former Army officer back home from her tour with her husband. The...

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In Chris M. Rutledge's short film, Trombone Jones, we see that many of our veterans are left on their own to navigate through the cycle of trauma with no...

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With the recent death of my grandmother, I've come to realize that even if you live to the ripe old age of ninety-two, as she did, life is too short. Then...

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I've noticed I tend to assign the moniker of Hallmark and Lifetime to issues-based films, but really it's a unique style of storytelling where the star is...

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PTSD: The Walking Wounded is an emotionally charged documentary about the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder in U.S. veterans. PTSD amongst...

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