Our half-hour documentary, Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War, premiered on Indiana Public Television in April, 2019. It has been shown at private and public screenings in Indianapolis, Boston, Washington, DC, and New Orleans.
The film was selected as a finalist for a regional Emmy Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. It has also been accepted to multiple film festivals and received awards from: the Miami International Film Festival, the Best Shorts Competition, and the Impact Docs Awards.
We are currently arranging screenings across the country and welcome the opportunity to connect with more audiences. Please contact us to organize a film screening as it is not yet available for public streaming.
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Our short film, Veteran Kids, was selected to screen at numerous film festivals, including Garden State Film Festival, My Hero Film Festival, Middle Coast Film Festival, Harvard Law School in the Arts, and Boston International Kids Film Festival, where it was selected for Best of the Festival. We are pleased that it has received numerous awards. |
About Veteran Kids -- This 6 minute piece features a poignant conversation between military children and and civilian children as they ask questions and share experiences. You will hear their sincere and candid stories that model the productive and open conversations that are possible when we connect across the military-civilian divide -- a young girl who speaks with pride and respect about her dad’s service while describing her fears for his safety; a teen boy who talks about going into his mom’s room and seeing how tidy it is, a reminder that she is deployed to a war. These stories are unscripted and give us all a chance to consider what the experience of war is for the more than 2.7 million children whose parents have gone to our post 9/11 wars. |
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View our original trailer |
We expand the conversation about the impact of war on military children in this 8.5 minute trailer filmed in North Carolina and Indiana, which includes discussions with veterans, their families, psychologists, educators and other experts, directed by Michael Nash.
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Producer Susan Hackley speaks with community members
Senator Joe Donnelly |
Professor Diane Levin |
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In this short film, United States Senator Joe Donnelly from Indiana speaks about the importance of learning from veteran families about the impact of war on them
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In this 16 minute interview, Producer Susan Hackley asks Professor Diane Levin specifically about how children experience parents going to war and learning about war.
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Creative Visions Foundation is the proud fiscal agent of Veteran Children.
Creative Visions Foundation is a publicly supported 501©3,
which supports Creative Activists who use the power of media
and the arts to affect positive change in the world. All donations are tax deductible.
Creative Visions Foundation is a publicly supported 501©3,
which supports Creative Activists who use the power of media
and the arts to affect positive change in the world. All donations are tax deductible.
