Retired Major shoots to save lives

For a military man, he's had to shoot with weapons. This time, the weapon is a video camera. This time the target is not an enemy he can see in the scope. This time, the enemy invisible but the camera can help people "see" it very clearly.

Retired Infantryman Writes, Directs PTSD Film

October 28, 2011
Army News Service|by Cheryl Rodewig
FORT BENNING, Ga. -- Sometimes people face a turning point -- a choice between heading down a wrong path or looking up for help. That's the central theme of "The Turning Point," a film written and directed by retired Maj. Ty Manns and filmed in the tricommunity over the past six days.

Drawing from 24 years of service as an Infantryman, during which he was always interested in filmmaking, Manns said he knew he wanted to create a movie focused on the military. Two events combined to give him the inspiration for the 40-minute feature, which deals with a sergeant's struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inspiration
The title of the movie came directly from the title of a sermon preached by Farnsworth Coleman, the pastor of New Birth Outreach Church and executive producer of the film.

"By the time I left church that day, I pretty much had in my head exactly what I wanted to do with this movie," Manns said. "I went home that day and started writing, and it turned out I ended up writing a story about a Soldier who returns home from the war and unbeknownst to him, he's actually suffering from PTSD. And in order to overcome all the things in his life that are starting to crumble apart, he eventually finds his way back to the church."
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