The Film
A personal search becomes
a larger reckoning.
Finding Harding: Lost at Shore follows U.S. Navy Veteran and filmmaker Andrew B Church as he searches for Tyler Harding, a former shipmate who disappeared from contact after leaving Active Duty.
What begins as a search for one missing friend becomes an intimate documentary about identity, isolation, trauma, and the struggle to rebuild identity after service.
I’m looking for Tyler Harding.
We served together. We knew each other in the structured world of the Navy — a world where identity was issued, reinforced, and understood.
After Active Duty, Harding disappeared from contact.
How many Veterans are still here — but no longer feel belonging?
Veterans do not just leave the military.
They leave a version of themselves.
Service can become identity.
Rank tells you where you stand.
Mission tells you why you matter.
Command tells you where you belong.
Separation can remove all three at once.
For many Veterans, the hardest part is not finding a job.
It is finding a self.
What the film
explores
Tone & Style
Cinematic. Intimate. Unresolved.
The film blends first-person documentary, personal investigation, participant-led interviews, archival material, observational scenes, and reflective narration.
The camera stays close to silence: pauses, empty rooms, unread messages, old memories, and places where people once belonged.
This should feel closer to a slow-burn reckoning than a traditional advocacy film.
Help move the
film forward
The project is currently raising $35,000 in immediate production support to strengthen the cinematic sample, polish the trailer, deepen participant outreach, support story producing, and prepare stronger funder and partner materials.