PTSD is a complicated subject that doesn't seem like it would be very entertaining. That was a challenge I undertook when I made this film. So I decided to take an unorthodox approach. I created 17 short films. Check it out. From Director Charles Shaw watch video on watch page
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Have you seen Soldiers of the Vine yet? Take a journey into the Amazon with a group of veterans seeking healing from PTSD. From Director Charles Shaw. watch video on watch page
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Six American veterans go to Peru to explore a 10-day plant dieta to treat PTSD. watch video on watch page
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For three years he traveled the globe, alone, with a pair of cameras and an audio recorder, meeting with people who told them about their most intimate traumatic experiences. The result of this work is At Home in the Dark: 17 Short Films Exploring Trauma & PTSD. The series is a highly personal, creative and subjective exploration of one of our culture's most ignored and misunderstood public health crises. This is not a traditional documentary by any stretch of the imagination; this is an experimental approach to a difficult subject. From the streets of Harlem to the jungles of Peru, At Home in the Dark introduces the viewer to a diverse range of trauma survivors, from former slave-holding blue bloods to suffering veterans, and takes their tragedy and turns it into art with beauty and meaning. The intimate settings and absence of a film crew or other intrusive presences makes for a unique and candid interview and storytelling experience. watch video on watch page
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Having reached a certain level of subscribers YouTube has allowed me to contact you all directly and I just wanted to say thank you so much over the years for supporting Nomad Cinema and all of my documentary and video work. If you haven't been to my page in a while come and check it out there's lots of material. And after a 7-year flurry of production I have stepped back a bit and am focusing on other aspects of my life. Hoping someday to develop a couple new documentary projects. But none of this would have been possible without all the great support I've had so thank you.
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Charles Shaw is an award-winning journalist, editor, author of the critically-acclaimed memoir, "Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spirituality" (2012, Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press), and Director of the documentary films, "The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs & The American Criminal Justice System" (2011), "Exile Nation: The Plastic People" (2013), "Visurreality" (2013), "WHITE PANTHER: The Legacy of John Sinclair (2013), AT HOME in the DARK (2017) and SOLDIERS OF THE VINE (2017).