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Children of Conflict is about the kids who grew up in the IRA dealing with the British Occupation, and had to learn how to survive being born into a war. Our story centers on a Irish daughter of the I.R.A, Bernedette Laub, who ran away 20 years ago to protect her son, but has returned to find closure from the tortures of her childhood. In the end, and to our surprise as we were filming, she finds it in the forgiveness from a British soldier she had sworn off as the enemy.

In 1964, Australia conducted a testing program for Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) vehicles in Innisfail, QLD, Australia - the 6 Tropical Trials. The trials saw the introduction of the M113A1 Armoured Personnel Carrier into Australia's Army. This vehicle was used extensively in the Vietnam War and subsequent variants saw over 55 years of operational service. In 1964 120 personnel travelled from Victoria to Innisfail for the 6th Tropical Trials Unit. This documentary isn't a war film. It features archival photographs taken of the 6TTU and offers an insight into how these men fitted in with the local community. Six men who participated share their memories of the trials, tropical hazards, accidents, meeting wives, and spaghetti for breakfast. This project encompassed the documentary film and an 8 part Service Voices, Radio Adelaide radio series produced by Helen Meyer. It was a finalist in the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia 2022 Awards in the Excellence in Innovative Programming category.

Hela, a 98 years old holocaust survivor from Boryslaw Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine tells her story in her own words. During the war she gave her son away to a 19 year old girl, she met by chance. All four of them lived together after the war. She with new husband whom she met while hiding, and without the child knowing who his real mother or father was.

Rajmonda, a young woman studying English as a second language, could not communicate until she was eleven years old when she moved to Texas from war torn Kosovo. Having overcome several language challenges, she is now at community college braving campus culture. Sometimes the simple things are the most difficult.

These two icons of progressive thought in America met for the first time to discuss a salient issue for our times: Why are some people known as whistle blowers willing to take courageous nonviolent action in defense of ethical principles and human rights--even at personal risk to themselves? This film explores the lives of whistle blowers and poses a further question: Why is so much money spent researching how to get people to obey external authority and no money is spent researching how to get people to obey their conscience? See this film and decide for yourself.