ByĀ Gregg Zoroya
Two filmmakers who won an Oscar for their documentary on a suicide hotline used their acceptance speech to urge troubled veterans to receive help.
Dana Perry and Ellen Goosenberg Kent spent months at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ suicide hotline headquarters filming Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, which showed the dedicated efforts staffers make to prevent veterans from killing themselves. Their Oscar on Sunday night was for best documentary short subject.
Perry mentioned her 15-year-old son, who had killed himself. “We should talk about suicide out loud,” Perry said.
VA Secretary Robert McDonald praised the HBO documentary for highlighting “the challenges our veterans can face and the work of our dedicated Veterans Crisis Line staff.”
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