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The War Between

Directed by Deborah Correa

April 1862, set in Arizona territory during the opening months of the American Civil War, THE WAR BETWEEN is about two enemy soldiers must cooperate in order to survive being stranded in the Arizona Desert.

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Synopsis

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Two enemies, one common goal. Survival.


Synopsis: An intimate epic, THE WAR BETWEEN is a personal story of a soldier who has lost his memory and must piece together the shards of a broken identity and survive being stranded in the unforgiving desert of the American Southwest. Set during the first year of the Civil War, he encounters an enemy soldier and a native American and they form an unlikely trio who are on their own personal journeys of survival and self-discovery. All three have their beliefs and prejudices confronted and challenged as they strive to reach safety. It is a timeless and timely story of how our history and culture both divide and unite us.

Director Identity

Bio

Deborah Correa is Colombian-American producer and director who was chosen for the prestigious AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Her work spans television, film and podcasts with both narrative and documentary projects. Her credits include PBS, History Channel, Spotify, Travel Channel, Paramount+, Brave New Films and Hulu. While working on Peter Berg's Film 45/History Channel series, The Warfighters, Deborah worked with over 90 U.S. Spec-Ops Veterans who were both in front of and behind the camera. She continues to work with veterans in telling their stories. She recently directed Army Ranger veteran Josh Kelly in Re/Collection, which premiered at the Sun Valley Film Festival. Deborah recently completed production on a short documentary with industry veteran and social justice filmmaker Robert Greenwald and two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. Her earliest work documented the return of a displaced village because of the violent narco-wars in her father's homeland of Colombia. While filming there, she revisited her childhood memories of this misunderstood and magical country. That experience continues to shape her direction in her work. Deborah recently completed production on her feature debut. Described as, “a soaring achievement,” (Film Threat) The War Between tells the story of two enemy soldiers who must unite to survive the Arizona desert. J Paul Johnson from Film Obsessive observes, “It’s perhaps unlikely territory for any first-time feature director and for female directors more broadly, to take on the Western and war film, two film genres long held dominated by male directors. But Correa, uses the familiar tropes of those genres to wreak new meanings from them, ones especially timely given our current fraught civic tensions."

Screening History

Phoenix International Film Festival

Press

"A soaring achievement"
Film Threat
"The War Between is a stoic yet compassionate story of survival."
Cinemacy
"It’s perhaps unlikely territory for any first-time feature director and for female directors more broadly to take on the Western and war film, two film genres long held dominated by male directors. But Correa, working from a script by Ron Yungul, uses the familiar tropes of those genres to wreak new meanings from them, ones especially timely given our current fraught civic tensions.""
Film Obsessive
"More than another shoot-em-up legacy Western, The War Between honors those who fought by striving to understand and convey their circumstance, offering up—as the richest films in that oldest of American film genres can do—new and invigorating perspectives on a past we all continue to need to know."
J. Paul Johnson

Credits

Lead Actor - Damian Conrad-Davis

Actor - Sam Bullington

Actor - Wayne Charles Baker

Actor - Essa O'Shea

Actor - Robert Peters