Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4RysJspGE4 Starts at: 00:47:40 (jump to 00:47:40)
Brian Morrison — ‘Bastards Road’ Documentary Presentation
[00:47:40] hey give it up for one more time y’all [00:47:48] all right coming to the state [00:47:50] stage i said i was doing the next person how you gonna steal my glory [00:47:55] we just talked about this listen if you don’t know by now i’m about that add life [00:48:01] i got the i got the h with it i got the adh you got the h on it though yeah all right that’s [00:48:06] extra that’s why i’m mad because i’m hyper you won’t let me do my part all right all right [00:48:13] six years man you’re just gonna take my part so coming to the stage give it up for [00:48:21] brian morrison give it up for him y’all [00:48:27] i’ve got that adhd life too big time [00:48:31] but not until recently did i understand i i had uh you know a proper diagnosis of that i have a [00:48:41] hard time communicating in words so bear with me uh i i use filmmaking as a way to kind of express [00:48:48] feelings and emotions mark [00:48:50] it out with a lot of courage and i do a lot ofсяi try not to make it any worse but i um i entered i i’ve [00:48:59] done video and film for since i got out of college so that’s what like 15 years ish but um i [00:49:09] i it took a you know when tyler said like find your people find your tribe like it took me a while [00:49:14] while to figure out like kind of where my heart was in the process and as one of my clients in like [00:49:19] assisted living and nursing homes um was asking for content to kind of tell stories in that [00:49:26] industry i i kind of stumbled upon doing documentary style and i just fell in love with talking to [00:49:32] people and in in my kind of childhood my family my family my mom my dad my sisters like nobody [00:49:40] talked my friends didn’t talk at all like i i like legit i’ve never seen my parents like hug [00:49:46] and but they’re still married they’re like they’re they’re good great good um but uh [00:49:54] but i just i’ve always had a hard time expressing my emotions that i use like film and video as a [00:49:59] way to kind of get it out and um i always like wanted to do movies i did music videos i did [00:50:06] i’ve done wedding videos uh cheesy car commercials around the area everything [00:50:10] everything name it i’ve done it but um i it was 2016 when my wife and i had noticed a guy that we [00:50:20] went to high school with was traveling across the country uh he was a marine veteran he’s from [00:50:25] maryland and he was he was walking kind of you know to you know deal with his own issues of [00:50:33] post-traumatic stress and reconnecting with marine brothers that he had served with families of their [00:50:39] fallen and [00:50:40] i kind of thought like whole holy like if nobody’s doing a documentary on this like this [00:50:46] kind of needs to happen he was popping up on a lot of like local news specials that’s where i found [00:50:51] out about him because people were sharing it on facebook and so chelsea and i realized that our [00:50:58] next door neighbor was uh one of his closest friends growing up and so he put us in touch [00:51:04] and kind of felt him out and um we talked back and forth for a little while but made that [00:51:10] first trip and um kind of felt an immediate kind of connection with each other i didn’t really have [00:51:16] any particular story i was trying to tell i was really just trying to investigate like what [00:51:21] was going on with him and um and really kind of just give him a platform and so [00:51:29] as as we kind of started and we realized like okay i guess we’re doing kind of a documentary [00:51:36] thing uh i don’t know if it’s gonna be a short or a feature or whatever [00:51:41] um [00:51:44] and um [00:51:47] his [00:51:48] some of [00:51:48] his [00:51:51] um [00:51:54] random [00:51:55] guy [00:51:56] uh [00:51:56] that doesn’t know anybody to be invited into [00:51:59] their home to like share [00:52:02] in this [00:52:02] really like [00:52:04] um [00:52:04] emotional [00:52:05] and [00:52:06] sensitive [00:52:07] and [00:52:08] um [00:52:08] and [00:52:08] reunion [00:52:09] like [00:52:09] and [00:52:10] and [00:52:10] the [00:52:10] uh [00:52:10] case of that first meeting john hadn’t seen the guys since they got out of combat like john served [00:52:16] in um the second battalion fourth marines and they were one of the heaviest hit units in iraq [00:52:21] uh one out of four was wounded or killed so a lot of those guys like were were struggling and um [00:52:29] i thought it was going to be about post-traumatic stress but the more i kind of learned about it it [00:52:35] just became so much and i think for me one of the bigger takeaways was how much anxiety i had like [00:52:42] talking to them because i don’t have any personal experience uh with with with trauma with uh [00:52:50] with any immediate family members or friends that have served in the military but i just kind of um [00:52:56] i just kind of tried to be use my ignorance as an advantage and and just be there emotionally [00:53:02] for them and i was kind of shocked by how [00:53:06] comfortable they made me in sharing their stories which was pretty humbling and um [00:53:12] mark uh mark stafford’s over there he’s got the gandalf beard [00:53:18] mark i i would like feed footage on these trips and just throw it at mark and and he would watch [00:53:24] and you know he kept asking to see more stuff so i kept sending it to him after it was like seven [00:53:30] trips it was uh john when i first john had walked like almost two thousand miles by the time i [00:53:35] hooked up with him for the first time and he ended around six thousand just shy of that and um i made [00:53:40] seven trips out um and uh yeah it was just the most rewarding experience ever the the film is called [00:53:48] bastards road it’s available almost uh anywhere you can rent or purchase a film so i encourage [00:53:54] everybody to go check it out please help numbers uh it was really a a um uh an effort of uh it was just a passion project [00:54:05] really and and it grew because people believed in it and people um just kept kind of kept wanting [00:54:13] to help and uh and yeah so it was we released it last summer so yeah i i hope i have the opportunity [00:54:20] to get do it again it really um it really kind of made me fall in love with that doc documentary [00:54:28] you know uh format and also just telling stories about mental health and having conversations that [00:54:33] i really didn’t have when i was growing up so that’s something i am very proud of so i’m really I hope you guys enjoyed that video. Thank you.