Kontra-Agos

A Resistance Films Festival

Robinson's Galleria, IndieSine
Quezon City, The Philppines
December 5-11, 2007

Standing Up

www.standingupthemovie.com
Directed By: Waise Azimi

STANDING UP is a feature length documentary young Afghan men training to become professional soldiers in the new Afghan National Army. Situated at the Kabul Military Training Center, Standing Up chronicles the struggles and lives of these Afghan men from the moment they arrive at the KMTC to the last day of training of their training. Extensive access to the KMTC training program has provided an insiders perspective into one of the most underreported and important stories in the War Against Terror, the story of those who are Standing Up to the first line of defense.

In June 2006 the documentary-maker Waise Azimi embedded at Camp Alamo, the Coalition partner-base to the KMTC. He spent four months with the men of Battalion 55 of the Afghan National Army and alongside US and Canadian soldiers from the Combat Arms and Collective Exercise Training sections of Training Assistance Group V. Previously, in 2003 Waise Azimi made Afghanistan After, a short film about how Afghan society had changed two years after the fall of the Taliban. Waise Azimi earned a degree in Sociology from Bard College in 2005, he currently lives in the capital of the Philippines, Metro Manila.

Standing Up - the trailer