Julie Mendez - from PTSD to Art
Sometimes pain cannot be expressed or exorcised through words.
2013-03-01 | 9 minutes
Plot Summary
Julie Mendez was a 17 year old teenager when she saw the "be all that you can be" Army recruiting messaging and decided to enlist. Her life would change forever when she was deployed to serve in the Iraq War. Her experiences changed her and she returned home to face feelings of isolation and depression. Always a creative person, Julie turned to art to help her process her experiences and begin to heal her PTSD.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
The Big Red One
-
The Story Won't Die
-
Retrograde
-
I Will Dance
-
The American War
-
Pictures at an Exhibition
-
Shades of Gray
-
Bomb It
-
Haifa Street
-
Johnny Got His Gun
-
Control Room
-
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
-
Sergeant York
-
Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy
-
The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin
-
Magritte: The False Mirror
-
Ashes and Snow
-
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
-
Report from the Aleutians
-
Sunflowers