Announcing "Freeze Frame" An Indie Movie About PTSD

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Written by Rita Lewis

That’s when I began to fear myself.
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I was terrified. Not of the nightmares, but of the fact that there was something going on inside me that I had no control of. Something that had terrible potential. That’s when I began to fear the demons

There is nothing stronger than a picture, a story, music, and the artistry of actors, a script that dazzles, direction that keeps us on the edge of our seats while making us think, makes us uncomfortable. Movies sell ideas better than anything on the Internet. And the powerful idea that Jonas and Galit McCord want to sell is that Veterans deserve our active help. Freeze Frame contains the message: soldiers are people who dedicate their lives to protect our country while their lives fall apart around them. We have the responsibility to hold them up while they do their jobs.

And then after that all takes place, and you're put back in a society full of civilized people, and you take up civilized ways ...

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You find that all people are people...

that all mothers have sons,
that all men have sweethearts,
that all people have dreams ...

...and you stop and think about the sons and his dreams that aren't going to be anymore.
Not just the people that you shot,
not the people that you killed,
but the lives that you killed ...

... and that does it for your own.

Support the making of Freeze Frame and you support educating the public so that just maybe we can ensure that the mental and physical health of vets will gain protection one act at a time.

What Is "Freeze Frame?"

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Written by Jonas McCord

"Freeze Frame" is the title of a feature film starring Ben Browder (Farscape, Stargate) that will begin shooting later this year.

Note that Ben Browder is the first of several well-known stars to sign on for FREEZE FRAME---more to come.

"Freeze Frame" is the story of an Iraq War Vet (Ben), interviewed in prison by a Vietnam Vet doing a documentary for a major network on vets in prison. During the interview, Ben confesses to killing a group of civilians in combat. It was this incident that landed him in prison. It weighed so heavily on his soul that he had he tried to commit suicide by holding up a bar with an unloaded weapon and is sentenced to eight years for attempted robbery.

Ben's tortured Iraq vet is the principal focus of the film.

After the documentary airs, a group of outraged viewers petition for Ben’s release and win him parole. When he gets out he finds there's nowhere he can go where people don't know him, and know what he did... including his son from a broken marriage, who won't speak to him. Ben's character then goes after the documentarian to kill him, but what Ben really wants is to be killed. And what the documentarian really wants is to be killed for his sins in Vietnam.

 Both men take the journey together.

The movie is inspired by a true story. Freeze Frame will be directed by Galit McCord, co-producer of the recent highly praised "Ask The Dusk" starring Colin Farrel and Selma Hayek.