FLAT DADDY screening at the Montclair Film Festival

486 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair, NJ | Get Directions »
$12.00

Only 1% of Americans currently serve in the U.S. Military, and their families have borne the disproportionate burden of more than a decade at war. Many have turned to “Flat Daddies” and"Heroes on a Stick," life-sized cardboard cutouts of their husbands, wives, parents and children serving overseas, to ease the pain of repeated deployments. Using these two-dimensional surrogates as a connecting thread, the documentary film FLAT DADDY follows four such families over the course of a year to explore the lasting impact of the war on those left behind. (RT: 82 minutes)

Q&A with Directors Nara Garber and Betsy Nagler (a New Jersey native) will follow the screening.