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Temple student’s editing key to Oscar-nominated film

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Hell and Back Again, a film edited by Temple grad student Fiona Otway, is up for an Oscar. The documentary is about soldiers in the Afghanistan war, and their struggles to return to domestic life. Otway's job was to edit between footage of Afghanistan and the U.S. By moving back and forth in time, Otway evokes some of the feeling of post-traumatic stress disorder. "There's the physical side of it, but then there's also the mental adjustment he's going through, which is harder to see. It's all in his head," said Otway.