My Home Your War - Screen Australia, Women Make Movies, NY- as an independent fimmaker I raised money, then directed, wrote and co-produced this one hour film following a family through the war in Iraq. The film is told through the eyes of the mother and wife, Layla Hassan, Over three years I documented how family life changed from the last days of Saddam Hussein's reign to the chaos post US invasion witnessing how a young teenage boy went from shy computer geek to radicalised young man and Layla an independent, intelligent women forced indoors and under the veil in order to stay safe. In the film I used multimedia storytelling devices combing audio, news footage, emails and Layla's video diary to tell the story. The film was sold all over the world and won many awards including the New York Film Festivals Gold Medal for Best documentary and the Australian Television and Media Awards for Best Documentary.
