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Coolidge Corner Theatre Screening and Discussion

10/14/2019

 
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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.

Film Screening and Discussion at PeaceCon 2019

10/13/2019

 
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Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War screened on October 4th in Washington, DC at PeaceCon 2019, the annual conference of the Alliance for Peacebuilding in partnership with the United States Institute of Peace. Joining us, from left: Jeremy Villanueva, Assistant National Legislative Director, Disabled American Veterans (DAV); Susan Reynolds, Founder, Tricare for Kids Coalition; Jeremy Reynolds, United States Airforce, Technical Sargeant, Airborne Meteorologist; Besa Pinchotti, Senior Director for Advancement, National Military Family Association (NMFA); Ian Reynolds, military child whose father Jeremy has deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan


Film Screening on 9/9/19 at Kelman Seminar

9/4/2019

 
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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
                                                             

Film Screening at Harvard Law School

6/11/2019

 
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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.

An Update on Our Film Premiere

5/17/2019

 
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We are so pleased to announce that on April 18th, our documentary film Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War had its premiere broadcast on PBS – WFYI in Indiana! Many military families we interviewed for the film, members of the Indianapolis community, friends and family gathered to watch it, enjoy a celebratory party, and have a post-broadcast discussion.   

The audience responses to the film were overwhelmingly positive. Many learned for the first time about the sacrifices and struggles military families experience when a spouse and parent goes to war, how they cope and demonstrate remarkable strengths. Military families said that the film accurately and poignantly captured how war has profound impacts on their lives. Everyone expressed hope that we will show the film widely, as it is a way to understand an often invisible cost of war and to know more about 2 million military children whose childhoods have been shaped by their mother or father serving in our post-9/11 wars. These wars have not yet ended, and children are still being deeply impacted, as their parents continue to deploy and serve in war.  
 
We are delighted with the many requests we have already received to show the film. And we are excited about the next phase of our film project, as we bring the film to a broad audience, including high schools and colleges, community groups, and military service organizations. If you would like to show this important and illuminating film to a particular group or organization, please let us know.

Our Film Premiere

4/12/2019

 
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Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War, our documentary film, will have its première on April 18 on Public Television Station WFYI in Indiana. Much of our filming took place in Indiana, and we are thrilled to be launching our film with WFYI.

If you have friends in Indiana, please urge them to watch at 7:30 pm on Thursday, April 18th on WFYI. We are really looking forward to reuniting with some of the wonderful children and families we filmed who told us – candidly and movingly - what it is like when mom or dad goes to war. 
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Update on progress of Veteran Children Film

1/31/2019

 
​The Veteran Children Project is pleased to report that we are nearly finished with the film editing of our 30 minute documentary program for public television. The film “Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War” will feature the voices of military children whose parents have served in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria. This project is more important than ever, as our wars go on, and military families continue to be impacted.
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"Veteran Kids" accepted to Harvard Law School Bicentennial Film Festival

9/14/2017

 
Our short film Veteran Kids will be featured at the HLS Bicentennial Film Festival (http://200.hls.harvard.edu/events/hls-in-the-arts) to be held at Harvard Law School on September 16, 2017. Producer Susan Hackley will show the film and talk about its purpose and the process of filmmaking. This will be the fifth film festival featuring Veteran Kids.

​The film shows an intimate conversation, as civilian children ask questions about what it is like to have a parent go to war and military children share their feelings and experiences. You will hear their sincere and poignant exchange, which models the productive and open conversations that are possible when we connect across the military-civilian divide -- the girl who speaks with pride about her dad’s service while describing her fears for his safety; the boy who talks about the tidy and unoccupied bedroom of his mother, a reminder of her deployment. These stories are candid and unscripted. They give us a chance to consider what the experience of war is for the two million children whose parents have gone to our post-9/11 wars.
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Veteran Children - our new name and new website!

9/12/2017

 
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We are proud to present this site as our new platform for bridging the military – civilian divide by engaging veterans, political leaders, educators, medical experts, and American youth in discussions and films about how military families experience war.

In 2013, this project began as A Child’s Guide to War. Founded by Susan Hackley, the mother of an American combat veteran, the team has expanded to include respected filmmakers, veteran family members, and community leaders.

From countless discussions and interviews, the team produced a short film called Veteran Kids, which has been featured at five film festivals. We are now working on completing a documentary film which will be aired by WFYI, the PBS affiliate station in Indianapolis, Indiana, where much of the filming has taken place.

We renamed the project Veteran Children to reflect our focus on the impact that war has on  children of veterans and servicemembers currently serving in our post 9-11 wars. The new website provides a more dynamic, informative platform from which to communicate our project and progress.

"Veteran Kids" selected for Garden State Film Festival

3/7/2017

 
We are pleased to announce that the Garden State Film Festival has selected "Veteran Kids" and it will be shown in Atlantic City, NJ this month (March 30th-April 2nd). This is our 4th film festival this year!
#GSFF2017 
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Get your weekend pass tickets here
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