Hurt Village

Institute History

  • 2011 June Screenwriters Lab

Description

Based on the award-winning play, Hurt Village follows a soldier's homecoming from Iraq to a crumbling housing project in Memphis, Tennessee, that is being demolished by the city. When a haunting secret threatens to tear his lif e apart, the war abroad may be better than the war in the streets and the war inside his head.

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