The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
April 3rd, 2007 by Zsofia
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One of the notable documentary films currently travelling through the festival circuit is “The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez”, a German-made film honouring the life of the first US soldier to be killed in the Iraq war.
Gutierrez was one of the 300,000 soldiers sent by the US Army to war in Iraq. His death within the first few hours of the war prompted his picture to travel all over the world. He was a so-called green-card soldier – one of approximately 32,000 soldiers in the US Army, who have traded military service for US citizenship.
Directed by Heidi Specogna, the film tells the moving and nearly unbelievable story of a one-time street child from Guatemala, who headed north along the Pan-American highway full of hopes and desires for a better future – and ultimately to die an American hero far from home. Searching for the images and stories that made up this life, the director set out to retrace Gutierrez’s path from Guatemala through Mexico and into the USA.
