Filmmaker Aims to Provide Hope, Inspiration and Healing with Upcoming Vietnam Veteran Documentary

In this powerful and deeply personal documentary, acclaimed storyteller Makia Harper explores the resilience of the human spirit.

Better than Before: Journey to Now features the stories of three veterans as they discuss the social, emotional, physical, and cultural effects of the Vietnam war. The film explores ways in which they heal from trauma and overcome adversity and discrimination as they establish a new sense of self at a pivotal moment in their lives.

Better than Before is more than a film; it’s a tribute to Makia's uncle, a proud military veteran whose unwavering optimism and strength carried him through a diagnosis of multi-myeloma as a direct result to his exposure to the hazardous herbicide Agent Orange.

Makia knows that storytelling has a healing power that is immeasurable and has been used to transmute trauma. The personal stories of veterans aim to provide an individual and collective catharsis, while providing hope and inspiration through adversity. This film also aims to preserve the history of one of the world’s most controversial wars.

Most of this project has been self-financed, and the film is 75-80 percent complete. Makia needs your help to finish the film. Contributions of all sizes will play an important role in bringing this film to the screen.

⁠Donate to support Better than Before: Journey to Now.⁠ https://www.spotfund.com/story/b108961e-a9d4-4341-94dd-64974c8f3a8e

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