Our goal in 2021 is to share the film Veteran Children with more live screenings, if given the persistence of Covid this is possible and safe, and through virtual screenings and virtual events. 
As we work to set these up, we are reaching new audiences -- in the U.S. at the Chicago Indie Film Awards and an international audience at the Berlin Film Festival. We're honored to have received film awards at both festivals.

Here's a 2021 update on our film, Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War.

Although we had to cancel our planned 2020 screenings due to the COVID pandemic, we were pleased to be nominated in June for a Regional Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

We kept active, reaching audiences through film festivals that screened films online during the pandemic. Veteran Children was selected and received numerous awards in 2020 including from the Miami Independent Film Festival, Best Shorts Competition, Impact Docs Awards and Lady Filmmakers Film Festival.  Awards in 2021 thus far include the Short Docs Film Festival and New York Film Awards.

In 2021 we look forward to having many virtual film screenings with discussions to bring together the military community and civilians across the country. Our film is a springboard for important conversations about the often invisible impacts of war on those who serve, their families, and their children.

Please contact us if you are interested in organizing a virtual screening.
We are eager to help you see and share the film.

Wishing everyone a healthy and happy year ahead.

As COVID-19 moves across the globe and our nation it is taking lives, upending economies, and forcing dramatic disruptions to everyday life. We at the Veteran Children Project want to express our deepest gratitude to the doctors, nurses, hospital staff, first responders and all those who are taking care of us and keeping essential services going. Their work is heroic and done at risk to their own lives and the lives of their families. Among them are thousands of men and women who serve in the military.

We say thank you to everyone on the front lines combating the pandemic.

Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War was featured on MIT Radio in Cambridge, Mass. on 1/31/20.
Talking with Linda Pinkow, host  of WMBR 88.1's What's Left program we discuss why we made the film,
the profound ways children and families are impacted by a family member going to war, and how we hope
the film will bridge the military-civilian divide.

PLEASE JOIN US at an important screening of our documentary
film Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War
Sunday, November 3 at 2:00 pm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre,
290 Harvard St. Brookline, MA

The film is a half hour long and will be followed by a
community discussion moderated by Alan Khazei, co-founder
of CityYear. All proceeds will be donated to Home Base Program,
a Red Sox/MGH partnership which provides life-saving clinical care
and support for the treatment of the invisible wounds of war to
veterans and their families.

Panelists Susan Hackley, the film's producer, Martha Jackson,
co-producer, and Jacque Francona, Family Outreach Coordinator
at Home Base Program will share the stories of military families,
examine the different costs of war, and explore ways that civilians
and veterans can come together.

On Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, we are pleased to be screening our documentary film, Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War at the Herbert C. Kelman Seminar at Harvard University.
The screening will be followed by a discussion focused on the theme How to Bridge the Military-Civilian Divide. We welcome you to join us to discuss this relevant topic in our nation as we enter the eighteenth year of our post 9/11 wars.

 The screening and discussion will take place at 4:30-6:30 pm, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South
  1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.
 The event is free and open to the public. If you are in the Boston/Cambridge area, please join us!
 
 For more information, go to: https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/kelman-seminar-military-civilian-divide
                                                             

At a film screening at Harvard Law School on June 5, producers Susan Hackley (right) and Martha Jackson (left) introduced their new documentary film, Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War to friends, colleagues, and family. The film shows how children are affected by a parent's deployment to war in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria. More than two million military children have a parent who has served in our wars since 9/11. Often these children struggle alone with their fears and anxieties. We can all support these children and families and help bridge the divide between military and civilians in our country. Please let us know if you want to show this important film at your place of work or worship, a veterans group, a high school or university, or in your community.