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The screening was sponsored by Discovery Times and the School of Media and Public Affairs, moderated by Mike Allen of TIME Magazine and attended by all four veterans featured in the film. Supporters of the candidates, their personal friends and GW students made up most of the screening's audience.
This group of veterans is otherwise known as the Band of Brothers 2006 - a group of Congressional candidates with no prior campaign experience looking to further serve their country by running for office. Additionally, the candidates said they ran for office as a means to enact change in the United States' policies toward the war in Iraq.
Filmmakers and brothers Brent and Craig Renaud followed the Band of Brothers from the group's formation last February to Election Day in November.
"We wanted to stay away from (creating) a political film - it was important for this to not be about a Democrat or Republican story. It was a coming home story," Brent Renaud said.
Craig Renaud added that, "When choosing the candidates, we wanted a cross section - different ages, ranges of service, people that would win and not win, people that had a lot of money and people that did not."
Specifically the film follows former Sgt. Rick Bolanos, who served in the Vietnam War and ran for a seat in Texas' 23rd Congressional District; Capt. Tammy Duckworth, a double-leg amputee who served in the Iraq War and ran for a seat in Illinois' Sixth Congressional District; Cmdr. Eric Massa, who served as an officer in the Navy for 24 years and ran in New York's 29th Congressional District; and Capt. Patrick Murphy, who served the Army for 11 years and ran for a seat in Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District.
