Warrior Films is a 501(c)(3) non-profit film production company headquartered in

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. Founded by

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and

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nominated producer/director

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(

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) in 2003, the organization produces

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s about people overcoming social-economic barriers to create social change. Warrior Films also runs a documentary filmmaking course in partnership with colleges and universities.

Films

Boys to Men? (2004)

Newark, New Jersey Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.Journey From Zanskar tells the emotional story of 17 small children who leave home and family, possibly forever, in order to save their dying

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an culture. Parting from one of the most remote and desolate places on Earth –

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, in northwest

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– the expedition must travel on foot over 16,000 foot Shinkula Pass in the

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. Two monks, serving as guides, walked this same path 30 years ago when they were children. Narrated by

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, featuring the

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, the film tells the story of their incredible journey.

Rites of Passage (In Production)

An estimated $500 billion is spent yearly on teen dysfunctions: drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy and STDs, school dropouts and expulsions, gang and property crimes, traffic accidents, ADD, ADHD, depression and violence. The film will show why healthy

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(initiation, mentoring) are the solutions to teenage dysfunctions. Rites of Passage will show how historically all major cultures and religions have had their own rites of passage. The film will also show the price society pays for not initiating teens and how communities are answering the call by co-creating their own functional rites of passage today. Rites of Passage will show real families who have been struck by the horrors and crimes of youth and how they are repairing themselves and their neighborhoods. Finally, the film will not only show teens who have been transformed by rites of passage, but also how their metamorphosis has revolutionized their relations with family, friends, teachers, and bosses, thereby creating positive changes rippling across homes, schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, cities and farms across the planet. A short film version of Rites of Passage was released in March 2015. It was screened at the Film For (A Better) Future Film Festival in

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in May 2016.

Veterans Journey Home (In Production)

Veterans Journey Home will tell the story of the 1.7 million returning

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veterans and what it takes for them to successfully transition back into civilian life. The film will examine how these veterans can be emotionally healed from the scars of war.

Filmography

* Veterans Journey Home (in production) * Rites of Passage (in production) * Rites of Passage (short film) (2015) * Journey From Zanskar (2010) * Boys To Men? (documentary mini-series) (2004)

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