The veteran Hollywood filmmaker is trekking to the Cannes Film Festival this month to showcase 38 minutes of his new film, "Home of the Brave." The independent film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Biel and rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) as U.S. National Guard troops readjusting to life back home after enduring the physical and emotional toll of war in Iraq.
The film won't be finished for months. But Winkler hopes that the early exposure will pique interest: "I wanted to expose the film to the media and some foreign distributors. Cannes gives you that opportunity. We could show the film to buyers (in Hollywood) or anywhere else, but we just want to get the word out about the film, get people talking about it. We think the subject is something on everybody's mind."
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