**NOMINEE - ACADEMY AWARDS - BEST DOCUMENTARY**
**IDA AWARDS - JACQUELINE DONNET EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD**
**NOMINEE - FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS - TRUER THAN FICTION
**NOMINEE - GOTHAM INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS - BEST DOCUMENTARY**
**NOMINEE - BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS - BEST DOCUMENTARY**
**NOMINEE - CINEMA EYE HONORS - OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION**
**NOMINEE - CINEMA EYE HONORS - BEST DEBUT FEATURE**
**NOMINEE - CINEMA EYE HONORS - OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION**
**WINNER - CINEMA EYE HONORS - OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY**
**WINNER Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award 2012 - Graduate School of Journalism**
**WINNER World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Sundance Film Festival 2011**
**WINNER World Cinema Cinematography Award– Sundance Film Festival 2011**
**WINNER – Best Film of the Documentary Competition — Moscow Int’l Film Festival**
**WINNER Harrell Award for Best Documentary- Camden International Film Festival 2011**

"Top 10 Documentaries of 2011: ...Beautifully shot and composited scenes in the midst of battle, but equally impactful in drawing out the human moments that make it all real.We need movies like this to remind us of what our soldiers go through - but also to make us think about why anyone needs to go through that at all." -- Movie City News, Kim Voynar

"Top 10 Films of 2011: Director and photographer Danfung Dennis has crafted a documentary about the war in Afghanistan with the mesmerizing, dreamlike artistry of a feature film." -- Associated Press, Christy Lemire

"Top 10 Films of 2011: Dennis jumps back and forth between this supremely potent fighter in the middle of a war he doesn't understand and the agonized and impotent man at home with a new, tragic perspective." -- New York Magazineand NPR's Fresh Air, David Edelstein

"...an ingenious artistic disturbance.Dennis's film attempts something few documentaries have: to inhabit the psyche of its subject." -- The Boston Globe, Wesley Morris

"A tour de force...HELL AND BACK AGAIN stacks one astonishing shot atop the next: perfectly composed tracking sequences in the heat of battle; saturated moody low-light compositions in rainy North Carolina parking lots; gorgeous rich soundscapes" -- The New York Times, Michael Kamber

"Artistic reach meets hypnotic intimacy in Danfung Dennis' vital war documentary 'Hell and Back Again'...a full-circle portrait of rare psychological immediacy and even rarer aesthetic command." -- Los Angeles Times, Robert Abele

"An astonishing technical achievement in war journalism and documentary filmmaking that may very possibly change the way conflicts are reported forever...'The Hurt Locker,' 'Control Room,' 'Gunner Palace,' 'Restrepo' ...Many are exceptional, moving and award-winning pieces of work, but of those that I have seen, none pack the visceral, emotional and artistic wallop that Danfung Dennis' documentary delivers." -- CNN.com, Mark Rabinowitz.

"HELL AND BACK AGAIN takes an intimate look at the price soldiers pay both in battle and at home in the service of their country." -- ABC News, Christiane Amanpour

MSNBC with Dylan Ratigan - Interview with Danfung Dennis

"Ballsy-as-hell...a rich visual juxtaposition between the dust and dirt and colorful fabrics of Afghanistan and the cold, shiny surfaces of the America...a game-changer, with its no-holds barred determination to take the viewer into combat and into the very consciousness of a soldier." -- Filmmaker Magazine, Paul Sbrizzi for Hammer-to-Nail

"CRITICS' PICK. A unique approach to depicting both the front lines and the home front. A fine addition." -- New York Magazine

"Stunning...An essential documentary that deploys a boldly cinematic arsenal...Seeks to document the personal experience of war with extreme and sustained intimacy... Flashbacks, match cuts, and an impressionistic use of sound cultivate a powerful psychic fluidity. A Marine's eyes have never looked this blue, nor blood so red." -- Village Voice, Michelle Orange

"4 STARS. Terrific! The director's imagery (he shot the movie himself) is ceaselessly mobile, floating with hypnotic grandeur through both of the film's interwoven sections. There's a hint of Kubrick in the vérité cinematography, especially in the way the camera sweeps through the Afghani landscape. Clear-eyed and empathetic...An illuminating on-the-ground approach." -- Time Out New York, Keith Uhlich

"As vital as the best war chronicles to come out in recent years, this is one every American ought to see." -- The Daily News, Elizabeth Weitzman

"Stunning... a breathlessly paced look at the realities of war." -- New York Post, Vincent Musetto

"A lyrical and humane film in the finest documentary tradition, which honors its subjects by telling their story with great dignity and painful clarity and leaving judgment to history." -- Salon, Andrew O'Hehir

"A vérité work of almost distracting beauty-a haunting quality in a film that operates in the apolitical mode of choice for recent combat docs, but is nevertheless inarguably about the cost of war." -- A.V. Club, Alison Willmore

"One of the greatest war films of this generation. It has the artistry of a painting and the impact of a sucker punch." -- AMC's Filmcritic.com

"Best War Movie of the Year." IndieWIRE, Eric Kohn.

"Taking a truly humanistic approach, Dennis is able to uncover the fragility beneath the gung-ho attitude and body armor without flinching from the complicated and messy reality these men reside in." -- Slant Magazine, Lauren Wissot

"A must see! Watching a tortured Sgt. Harris show his reluctant wife how to use a handgun is to see the fog of war through new eyes." -- GQ, Mickey Rapkin

"...a vivid and moving testament to what's really going on in Afghanistan, and in the hearts and minds of the soldiers fighting there." -- Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman

"Danfung Dennis's first feature is an extraordinary portrait of a tormented young war veteran, capturing not only the brutality of the battlefield but the challenges of coming home. HELL AND BACK AGAIN is a cinematic non-fiction film that is hard to shake even days after experiencing it. The film and its filmmaker are ones to watch." -- indieWIRE, Eugene Hernandez

"One of Sundance's most promising entries. Danfung Dennis' HELL AND BACK AGAIN has remarkable access to one seriously injured soldier in Afghanistan and on his return home to North Carolina." -- Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan

"HELL AND BACK AGAIN is an extraordinary film that captures the human side of the battle - our soldiers in Afghanistan and struggling to reconnect at home, and the people they are fighting to help. It's worth your time to see the images and perspective Dennis captures here." -- Movie City News, Kim Voynar

"Photojournalist-turned-filmmaker Danfung Dennis' HELL AND BACK AGAIN vigorously embraces a grunt's eye view of war and its aftereffects. The images (Dennis) brings back are painterly and expressive, both exceptionally real in their photojournalistic quality and physically vivid as cinema." -- Variety, Robert Koelher

"Danfung Dennis presents a powerful, brilliantly edited depiction of the horrors and daily violence of our ongoing war in Afghanistan." -- Hollywood Reporter, Duane Byrge

"Hell and Back Again may be the closest most civilians ever get to the reality of the war in Afghanistan." San Francisco Chronicle, Walter Addiego

"3 Stars! - Critic's Pick!" Washington Post, Michael O'Sullivan

"Hell and Back Again, a superb, violent, jarring and daring documentary about the war in Afghanistan, lays bare the truth of war - its hellish quality - with such power, you're not likely to look at this, or any other conflict, the same way again." Philadelphia Inquirer, Tirdad Derakhshani