Dear Child — Full Short Film – ScheerPost

July 1, 2024

By Chris Hedges and Devin Peters / Dear child

Written like a letter to a child in Gaza, this film takes the audience on a haunting and realistic journey through modern-day Gaza from the perspective of a child filled with guilt towards a foreign journalist. Stylish, artistic, terrifying, but still full of hope that we can do better. After all, we must.

Click here to watch the version with Arabic subtitles.

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Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as head of the newspaper’s Middle East and Balkans bureau. Before that, he worked abroad for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitorand NPR. He is the host of the show The Chris Hedges Report.

He was part of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for The New York Times’ coverage of global terrorism and received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for human rights journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestselling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War Against America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of the Spectacle and was a finalist of the National Book Critics Circle for his book War is a force that gives us meaningHe writes an online column for the website ScheerPost. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto.

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