Producer & Director

Terry Sanders

Writers

Terry Sanders
Christine Wiser

Co-Producer

Jennifer Glos

Photography

Erik Daarstad
Buddy Squires

Editors

Brian Johnson
Anne Stein

Executive Producer

Tammy Alvarez

Music

Scott Michael Ford

Production Coordinator

& Sound Recordist

Bruce Nolte

Fighting for Life is a powerful and emotional feature documentary film, a real-life “MASH” for our times, the story of doctors and nurses fighting on the frontlines in the battle for life, interweaving three stories:

    •  Military doctors, nurses and medics, working with compassion, skill and dedication in the vortex of the Iraq War.
    •  Wounded soldiers and marines reacting with courage, dignity and determination to survive and to heal.
    •  Students at USU, the “West Point” of military medicine, on their journey toward becoming career military physicians.

The film also follows 21 year-old Army Specialist Crystal Davis, from Iraq to Germany, and to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC, as she fights to recover and “bounce back” from the loss of a leg from an IED blast. The song, “No Surrender”—Bruce Springsteen’s haunting elegy of compassion and determination—plays over Crystal in the poignant last scene of the film.