Letters Home to Hero Street, a documentary by Fourth Wall Films and WQPT-PBS, is an Official Selection at the 2015 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival. The film will screen on the opening night of the festival, Friday April 17th, at 7:25 p.m. and again on Saturday, April 18th at 7:12 p.m. at the Collins Road Theatres, 1462 Twixt Town Road, Marion, Iowa.
The 30-minute documentary is in competition with four other films in the professional documentary category.
Letters Home to Hero Street focuses on a young Mexican-American veteran's personal view of World War II as told through the letters sent home to his family in Silvis, Illinois. He becomes one of eight veterans of WWII and the Korean War killed in combat from the same block-and-a half-long neighborhood now called Hero Street, USA. The film project was awarded a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
An award ceremony will take place at the end of the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival on Saturday evening, April 18th at 9 p.m.
For ticket information and the film festival schedule, visit http://www.crifm.org.
Letters Home to Hero Street is available on DVD at Amazon.com, and in the Quad Cities at The Book Rack, The Quad Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau, and at Porkie’s Restaurant on the corner of Hero Street in Silvis, Illinois.
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