Download Presskit Click Here 5/1/08 Official Selection David Bianchi heads back to showcase Soldier at the Rochester International Film Festival. 4/15/08 Official Selection Soldier premieres in Tokyo, Japan at the Short Shorts Lounge. 1/1/07 No. 2 Best Unseen Movie of 2006! Film Threat magazine has rated SOLDIER the NO.2 BEST UNSEEN FILM OF 2006!!! This is an international search of great films that never recieved traditional distribution and is a HUGE honor! Click Here for full Article 10/10/06 Nov. 15th - 19th, 2006 Winner! - Best Short Soldier has been selected to screen in NYC! at The Queens International Film Festival a 4 day festival that attracts thousands! this makes number 11 domestic festivals folks! The exposure to the burrows will be phenominal considering the poetic following of the city! 9/10/06 October 3rd, 2006 Nominated - Best Drama and Sound Design Soldier is set to screen in the windy city of Chicago (its home town) in full high definition at Midwest Independent Film Festival! 9/5/06 Nov. 16th - 19th, 2006 Winner! - Best Dramatic Action Short Soldier was awarded Best Dramatic Action Short and was selected 1st Runner Up for Best Short at the San Tan Short Film Fest in Phoenix, AZ offering thousands in cash prizes. 9/1/06 March 13th - 18th, 2007 Soldier hits the beach in 2007. we are an official selection of the Delray Beach Film Festival. Details will become available as we draw closer. Stay tuned. 8/31/06 November 9th-12th, 2006 Soldier is an official selection of the Artivist International Film Festival taking place at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood! Artivist addresses the importance of art and activism in our global community and will feature several celebrity guests including Tom Hanks, Joaquin Phoenix, Darryl Hannah and many more! 8/21/06 September 27th- October 1st, 2006 Soldier is now an official selection of the San Diego Intl Film Festival. Another prestigious fest that is rated on of the top 10 American Film Festivals to take place in the historical Gas Lamp Quarter! Only 85 films are selected for this fest out of 2,000+ submissions 8/5/06 September 5th-14th, 2006 We are now a selection of the largest short film festival in the world! Los Angeles International Short Film Festival taking place Sept. 5th - 14th at the world-renown Arclight Cinema Complex. LA shorts is also Academy endorsed. 7/28/06 October 25th - 27th, 2006 Soldier has just been selected into the 9th Annual ARPA International Film Festival taking place Oct 25th - 27th at the legendary Egyptian Theatre in downtown Hollywood! The ARPA Fest is dedicated to work that is culturally and socially relevant and themes that create global empathy. 7/20/06 August 24th - 30th, 2006 Soldier is now an official selection of The Palm Springs Intl. Festival of Short Films taking place Aug 24th - 30th. The PSSFF is the largest short films festival in North America drawing up to 30,000 attendees! The PSSFF is also a film market where many lucky filmmakers aquire distribution. This is also an Academy endorsed festival. 1st Runner UP 2nd in Online Voting 6/7/06 Click Here for Results BEST FILM, BEST DIRECTION, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST EDITING Soldier was showcased on June 7th in Hollywood CA at The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Linwood Dunn Theatre to a sold out audience! This is a tremendoes honor for Soldier and we only hope to see more as the project develops and gains exposure. The Rating: A+ 4/21/06 Click Here for full Review “A short film based on a spoken word piece? Yes. And it works. So well, in fact, that I could imagine it being embraced by both veterans of actual combat who’ve lived to tell the tale, and those of us adamantly opposed to the act of war.” "The piece is more sympathetic than critical, focusing on the thoughts and horrors young men and women in combat go through. Interspersed throughout the gradually intensifying narration are calming interludes of an older man in shadow, singing a haunting, modified version of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.”" 5 Star Review! 2/11/06 By Phil Hall Click Here for full Review “Soldier” is among the finest experimental short films ever made.” "Soldier is raw, visceral, furious and brilliant. Pico and Bianchi have crafted a perfect film. I wish every American would see “Soldier” ­ especially those who voted to send America’s youth into the Iraq slaughterhouse." "This is clearly a piece of performance art, not neo-realism, yet when the blood starts pouring and the soundtrack is full of gunfire, one can gain a greater understanding of today’s Baghdad then from the curiously sanitized TV news broadcasts originating from the Iraqi capital." 2/7/06 March 23rd - 30th, 2006 SOLDIER is now an official selection of the Phoenix Film Festival! We are very excited about this update and will continue to keep you posted with further details! Phoenix is a good sized festival that last year hosted 15,000 attendees! Last year honoring Kevin Bacon. and Featuring Keira Sedgwick, Tom Arnold, Danny Trejo and others!