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Summary My Dead Friend Zoe is a darkly comedic look at the grief process that is making its debut at the 2024 South by Southwest festival. The film draws from the experience of filmmaker Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, who joined the U.S. Army one month before the 9/11 terrorist attack and served 5 years as a paratrooper.
Kyle Hausmann-Stokes: I've been trying to make this movie for maybe 20 years. When I got out of the military the first time, it was a colonel of mine that saw something in me and set me on this path to tell the soldier's story. So that was back in 2004. I eventually made my way to film school and got pulled out of film school to go to Iraq and I just really kind of had every experience that the typical soldier would have back home and down range.
Natalie Morales: Well, to not repeat exactly what Sonequa said, let's see if I can come up with something that doesn't repeat exactly what Sonequa said. It's interesting because I've always really felt such a passion for veterans and how poorly they're treated in this country by the people that put them in danger. And I feel like we really should take care of our veterans so much more than we do and that we have.
So, I was immediately drawn to it on that level, and I reflected on past experiences from reading the script and then talking to Kyle, it just kind of opened up this whole new possibility of healing, and hope, and how to break down those boundaries, or those walls of silence and secrecy and shame, and how those things can be killers in their own right. Silence, secrecy, and shame.
There's light and hope and power in this story, and I think, as anyone who's been confronted with mental health issues and darkness, that people can be able to see Merit, in particular, go through a journey like this and come out where she comes out and her family as well, how they are affected and how they can grow as a unit. I mean, it's really inspiring, well-done, man. I'm happy to be a part of it.
And he said, "You really think you are suffering right now? No friends, drinking all this stuff. You really think that's how your dead buddies would want you to honor them? You're wrong, you're stupid. You need to live your best life. That's how you honor them." That was the big paradigm shift for me.
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