Chris Mandia

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Chris Mandia is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director, and Iraq War veteran from San Pedro, California. He was a U.S. Marine infantryman and served two combat tours in Iraq, including the battle for Fallujah.[1][2] Mandia has won numerous awards for his work and received a Jack Nicholson scholarship to attend the MFA program at the University of Southern California’s film school. In 2010, he received an Operation In Their Boots fellowship and “Get Some,” a film he authored, was a Cannes Film Festival selection.[3][4][5][6] In 2012 he co-wrote the multimedia physical theatre piece, Trajectories: Transformations with Meron Langsner for Evet Arts. The piece was based on interviews with servicemen from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and was performed in Boston and Chicago.

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  1. ^ deGrandpr, Andrew (March 7, 2010). "Creativity helps these veterans work through pain". Marine Corps Times Times. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
  2. ^ " SignOnSanDiego". Retrieved October 20, 2010
  3. ^ Zavis, Alexandra (March 7, 2010). "Veterans put their own war stories on film". Los Angeles Times.
  4. ^ "International Documentary Association. Retrieved October 21, 2010
  5. ^ Hillard, Gloria (October 1, 2010). "Vet Filmmakers Recount War Experiences On-Screen". NPR.
  6. ^ Sharpe, Margaret (May 1, 2010). "From Battlegrounds to Classrooms" (PDF). San Pedro Today. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 7, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
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