Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1

November. 11,2013      
Rating:
7.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, one veteran dies by suicide in America every 80 minutes. While only 1% of Americans has served in the military, former service members account for 20% of all suicides in the U.S. Based in Canandaigua, NY and open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the Veterans Crisis Line receives more than 22,000 calls each month from veterans of all conflicts who are struggling or contemplating suicide. This timely documentary spotlights the traumas endured by America’s veterans, as seen through the work of the hotline’s trained responders. CRISIS HOTLINE captures extremely private moments, where the professionals, many of whom are themselves veterans or veterans’ spouses, can often interrupt the thoughts and plans of suicidal callers to steer them out of crisis.

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Reviews

Evengyny
2013/11/11

Thanks for the memories!

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Comwayon
2013/11/12

A Disappointing Continuation

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AshUnow
2013/11/13

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Guillelmina
2013/11/14

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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Horst in Translation ([email protected])
2013/11/15

"Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1" is a 40-minute documentary short film from 2013 by filmmaker Ellen Goosenberg Kent, who has worked on documentaries about all kinds of stuff in the last 20 years before making this one here, probably her career-defining film at this point. It won her an Academy Award pretty much exactly a year ago and I applaud the Academy for honoring this little gem. The premise is very simple. We all know about soldiers who come back home and face severe mental struggles. Early on we find out the terrible truth of how many of these actually kill themselves and for the rest of the film we get to witness these brave souls who are there for them.It is a call center for veterans and their partners/family when they feel that they may be in danger of committing suicide or are just in a really bad state mentally because of what they had to witness in Afghanistan or wherever they were stationed. What I really liked about this film is that it's all about the people in the movie. There is no narrator breaking the atmosphere and we get all the informations we need displayed via text, i.e. who we are watching, who is calling etc. A great short film and I highly recommend seeing it, also if you have nothing to do with the military or do not come from the United States. Both factors apply to me and I still had a great time watching. Very depressing and yet uplifting. Thumbs up.

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MartinHafer
2013/11/16

The first of the films in the special showing this year of the Oscar-nominated documentary shorts is the best of the lot and my pick to win the Oscar. It's a film from HBO Pictures called "Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1". Depressing...you betcha! But unlike most of the other films, this one promotes change and awareness-- which are why I traditionally love documentary shorts. In addition, while this one will probably make you shed a few tears, it IS rather optimistic in that none of the folks whose stories you hear were successful in killing themselves. The story is set at a nationwide suicide hotline for American active duty and veteran soldiers. This nationwide hotline is in Canandaigua, New York and it focuses on the workers and supervisors at this crisis line. Throughout the film, you follow various workers as they take phone calls from despondent soldiers or their families. You do not hear the callers--just the workers and it is very, very tense but satisfying to hear them saving lives. The film really is terrific and draws needed attention to the very serious problem of emotionally wounded soldiers. Well made in every way.UPDATE: Yippee! Rarely does the film I think SHOULD win actually wins the Oscar. Tonight this film took home the Best Documentary Short and definitely deserved it.

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DareDevilKid
2013/11/17

Reviewed by: Dare Devil Kid (DDK)Rating: 4.5/5 starsThis HBO documentary short offers an almost unbearably intense look inside the operations of the 24/7/365 "Veterans' Crisis Line", where mental-health professionals, some of them veterans themselves, counsel despondent and suicidal military personnel, both retired and those on active duty. It's a horrifyingly necessary job, we learn, with the U.S. in the midst of an epidemic of veteran suicides.An opening graphic states that 22 veterans have been committing suicide daily, nearly one every hour – more than the number of soldiers lost on the battlefield. In response, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs created the "Veterans' Crisis Line" to address the issue. A chilling montage focuses on emergency rescue operators and coordinators working in tandem as they respond to various callers threatening suicide by gun, knife, pills, razor, hanging – even an intentional car wreck. Almost all the callers suffer PTSD nightmares. One operator (and vet) recalls Vietnam, where soldiers were given orders to shoot anything that moves - sometimes the "enemy" turned out to be a mother holding her infant. He proceeds to ask us how a soldier could emerge unaffected from that?We watch paired teams battle to save U.S. veterans from committing suicide in the only existing crisis center in the country. There are 250 employed here handling 22,000 calls a month, but the film follows a few choice subjects. Operators have to make split-second decisions. How long can they maintain confidentiality before it's time to call the police? If the caller claims to have a weapon, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) can't go into a house without a police escort.These exhausting negotiations often include flashbacks of mass casualties on the battlefield, re-experienced in gruesome detail. Callers hang up, then reconnect. Misreading a caller's intent can result in a call for an ambulance or the morgue.Some callers have had as many as four deployments – before their 21st birthday. Most have families, wives or girlfriends, which the operators use to buy precious time. That the vet has reached out by calling means they are more likely to be open to professional help. The responders, as they're called, need their own support, usually a supervisor who comes in to talk them down before they head into their next call. "Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1" is indeed a sobering, humbling piece of work. I'm guessing it wins the statuette come Academy night on 22nd Feb.

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