"We were looking for a film maker to shoot a movie to support a patriotic anthem which we had produced. We reached out to a young director who had shot a lot of video for another project about a young man going off to war. It was just visual, but when we viewed it, its potential to marry up well with the song was apparent. We added some dialog at the beginning and the end, and we added the flashback element to the story to give it more complexity. The ending is deliberately ambiguous (was he KIA?). It was re-edited, titled and produced. Neither pro-war nor anti-war, the message is that behind every warrior there is a family. "So Long For Now" (which came from the dialog) won an award at the USA Film Festival and did extremely well in the Academy Awards short film competition."

Filmed on location in North Carolina in regular definition and edited on a Mac with Final Cut Pro.

Jeff Locke, Producer
Paul Hampton, Songwriter