So I'm officially directing and producing a feature-length Vietnam War film

[PhillyB]

@RoaringRiot is the poo. that's all

[d-dave]

I will say I'm so incredibly impressed!  Good luck!!!!

[PhillyB]

HALP

6 hours to go in the fundraising campaign - i'm down to the wire, about 1500 away from raising enough to green light the Cambodia phase of the production. any eleventh-hour huddle angels wanna join @cookinwithgas and @Captroop (i owe y'all tailgates beers btw) and help polish this thing off so i never annoy people with indiegogo links again? 

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/point-man-film-action/x/14773877#/

 

[Captroop]

You fugers are gonna spend $50 bucks on shitty beer watching the game tomorrow. Don't tell me you can't throw in a couple bucks to support one of our own and prove that the denizens of the Huddle aren't all colossal fug-ups.

[PhillyB]

2 minutes ago, Captroop said:

You fugers are gonna spend $50 bucks on shitty beer watching the game tomorrow. Don't tell me you can't throw in a couple bucks to support one of our own and prove that the denizens of the Huddle aren't all colossal fug-ups.

dude, seriously, you're the man. i can't thank you enough. numerous beers on me next time i get up that way or you're down here.

[PhillyB]

started from the bottom now we here

 

[pstall]

Attaboy!!!

Nicely done pb. Your efforts will be rewarded man. Keep at it.

[PhillyB]

latest press release, segment on time warner cable news for those interested

 

[Still Brooklyn]

What're your thoughts on Hacksaw Ridge?

[PhillyB]

On October 25, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Still Brooklyn said:

What're your thoughts on Hacksaw Ridge?

interesting premise. i'll go see it. i like seeing how other filmmakers compose combat.

i was talking to a vietnam vet the other day about conscientious objectors and he told me there were numerous CO's in vietnam. some of them even walked point, without a weapon, and gained deep respect from their peers. 

[Chimera]

Interesting premise? Have you read Desmond Doss's actual Medal of Honor citation?

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private First Class Desmond Thomas Doss, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond the call of duty from April 29 - 21 May 1945, while serving with the Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division, in action at Urasoe Mura, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. Private First Class Doss was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machine gun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Pfc. Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying all 75 casualties one-by-one to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands. On May 2, he exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on the same escarpment; and 2 days later he treated 4 men who had been cut down while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of grenades to within eight yards of enemy forces in a cave's mouth, where he dressed his comrades' wounds before making 4 separate trips under fire to evacuate them to safety. On May 5, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages, moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small arms fire and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded by fire from a cave, Pfc. Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety while continually exposed to enemy fire. On May 21, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited 5 hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Pfc. Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter; and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers' return, he was again struck, by a sniper bullet while being carried off the field by a comrade, this time suffering a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station. Through his outstanding bravery and unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions Pfc. Doss saved the lives of many soldiers. His name became a symbol throughout the 77th Infantry Division for outstanding gallantry far above and beyond the call of duty.

[Kevin Greene]

On 10/23/2016 at 6:17 PM, PhillyB said:

latest press release, segment on time warner cable news for those interested

 

I am in awe where you've taken this already.

Keep Pounding.

 

[PhillyB]

A month away from production in Cambodia we got a chance to see the Point Man teaser trailer on the big screen at a film festival in Winston-Salem. It was mind-bogglingly awesome.

 

 

Check out the official Facebook page and Point Man IMDb if you haven't already.

edit: also big ups to @arbnranger for the work in helping me arrange a studio location to shoot an interior scene here stateside!

[Ja Rhule]

I still say a porn movie was cheaper and better option :p