Danfung Dennis worked as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2006, with his images published in The New York Times and Newsweek. His footage opened the 2009 PBS Frontline feature program, 'Obama's War', which was nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award and won the 2010 Bayeux-Calvados Award For War Correspondents. Danfung Dennis directed and filmed his first feature length documentary on the war in Afghanistan, Hell and Back Again, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and won both the World Cinema Jury Award and the World Cinema Cinematography Award. The film was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award for best feature documentary and broadcast nationally on Independent Lens.