Synopsis:
Sometimes The War Comes Home

An eighteen-year-old Chicago native - heavily abused by his father as a child – enlists in the Marines and joins Operation Iraqi Freedom. Returning from a 4-year tour (and suffering from PTSD), he learns his mother has committed suicide and he blames his father for her death. While he attempts to readjust to civilian life & re-establish his relationship with his girlfriend, he feels he must “set things right” with his father.

WINNER BEST FEATURE FILM - Delray Beach Film Festival 2008

Winner: Best Feature/Drake International Film Festival (Caserta, Italy) June 2008

World Premiered at Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago to a sold out audience, and immediately had its theatrical run extended at the center to June 2008.

"Farewell Darkness is an intense and gripping story... An outstanding independent film."
- Marisa Darnel, Artist Interviews

"…an intense drama, Pico works visual wonders on a low budget; the impressive combat scenes put many a mainstream production to shame." -– Marty Rubin – Gene Siskel Film Center

"An unflinching study of one soldier's struggle coming home that is emotionally raw and fundamentally moving." -- Film Critic Erin Duley, duleynoted.com

"...It was a great film." -- Derek Kucynda, Columbia Chronicle

Cast:
Keith Compton, Brianna Weaver, Circus-Szalewski, David Bianchi, Arch Harmon

Crew:
Written & Directed by Daniel J. Pico
Producers: David Bianchi, James Azrael, Matthew M. Jones
Writer: Roy Maurer
Cinematographer: Jason Deuchler
Composer: Carl Sondrol
Editor: Gina Kovacic

HD, 96 minutes, 2007