How This Tribeca-Winning Director Made a Period Film That Feels Strikingly Modern

READ MORE: Watch: New Trailer and Clip Arrive When 'Men Go To Battle' For the Civil War FilmThe problem with most period pieces is that they're distancing. Even the finest, most humanizing historical films have an anthropological quality, as if the people onscreen were torn from a history book rather than a captured slice of life. This problem is typically inherent to the fabric of the period piece genre. That's not the case with Zachary Treitz's "Men Go to Battle." Treitz, who was awarded Best New Narrative Director at the Tribeca Film Festival this year, has created a period piece that feels contemporary. "Men Go to Battle," set in 1861, is a portrait of...

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