"My War, My Story" premiered Monday July 21st, and it will be repeated
Saturday, July 26th at 5pm Eastern. Read what the filmmakers have to say about what drove them to make this compelling documentary.

1. First tell us about you -  your career as documentary filmmakers?

We started by making short films, and when that wasn't possible, we found that we could work on documentaries for many months without the crazy pressure of
fictional films.   We began to love making documentary films, which allow you to
address things that are important to you, like what is happening in the world, or small overlooked subjects, like the group of mushroom hunters we found who have been keeping a running field survey of mushroom growth for many years.  Or Mike Martin in Wyoming, who has single handedly recorded and preserved the music of the eldest generation of bluegrass players, the last living links to the 19th century folk music traditions of the region.
We've produced over 50 short and feature films and documentaries.  Andy directed a series for Wyoming Public Television, called Wyoming Portraits, which aired in 2006-07.  The series won four Telly awards.  He later conceived of and directed the PBS special Living Nightmare: Crystal Meth Addiction in Wyoming, which recently won a Telly Award.

[ You can see our complete resume at www.wolfgangpictures.com/wolfgangresume ]

2. How did you come up with the idea for MWMS?We went to a rally in Boston to do research for a short film on the Iraq Veterans who are against the war.  We were hearing some very unusual stories - things we never heard in mainstream media.  We felt we owed it to the soldiers and their families to do something more. Once we met Carlos Arredondo and Kevin Lucey, both fathers who lost their sons to this war, we knew that we had to make this movie, but on a national scale.

3.  How long did the documentary process take you -  from idea to film festival?  We started shooting in Boston. October of 2005 and wrapped in April of 2006.  The idea developed very quickly after the first two shoots in the fall.  In other words, we started shooting before we had the exact idea that led to the final movie.  There was a little down time following the editing and we applied to our first festivals in January 2007.

4. How has the film been received - tell us about the response you've gotten. The audiences have always responded very well, with a couple of exceptions.  I think people were not used to hearing Iraq vets, who are very respectful of other vets, speak so clearly and forcefully against the war.  In one Wyoming screening, audience members were angry that our doc was not a 50-50% proposition, half for and half against the war.  We chose mostly vets against the war because we had NEVER heard any ordinary soldiers speak out, but had been exposed to many Iraq vets (on Memorial Day, July 4th, etc.) who thought the war was justified. Things have changed a little, but we feel that there is still a hesitancy in the major media to let anti-war Iraq vets speak, without qualification.  Ordinary pro-Iraq war vets are not challenged in any way on the air, of course.  MWMS addresses this bias.5

5. What is next for you? Any projects in the pipeline?
We have completed post-production on The Devil Among Us, the first documentary about the Connecticut witch trials, which were the first and strangest in America.  Andy is also shooting a side project, a feature doc about the craziness of the Yankee/Red Sox rivalry in central Connecticut, where the fans are split about 50-50%.  We have developed an experimental doc idea about the American labor movement, complete with songs, scenes where actors portray historical figures-this might be our next project.