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Brats Without Borders (BWB) is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Donna Musil in 1999 to create film, art, and educational programming to educate, illuminate, and provide hope - including programming designed to advance education and science, lessen national and neighborhood tensions, eliminate prejudice and discrimination, defend human and civil rights, and explore the unique subculture of military “brats” (i.e., children raised in military families) and other “third culture kids” (e.g., children who spend a portion of their youth outside their country of citizenship, primarily due to their parent(s) careers with diplomatic services, international corporations, educational organizations, and other groups). Blind Turtle Productions is the new film and documentary division of BWB.
If you would like to support our films and educational/arts programs by making a tax-deductible donation, please follow the instructions below. All funds go directly to Brats Without Borders (Federal Tax ID #58-2486120). Thank you for your help!
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Brats Without Borders, Inc.
P.O. Box 9186
Denver, CO 80209 USA
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films & documentaries your donation supports
Here are some of the films and documentaries your donation supports:
BRATS: Our Journey Home - U.S. military brats describe growing up around the world, then struggling to fit into an America their families fought for, but barely know. Narrated and featuring songs by Kris Kristofferson. We are currently working on an anniversary edition, featuring lots of additional footage, as well as a new “BRATS Raw” edition, featuring psychotherapist Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman.
Our Own Private Battlefield - Twenty years after the Vietnam War tore their family apart, a combat Marine and his daughter use their art to explore the inter-generational effects of war and trauma on military families.
Truman's Kids is a documentary work-in-progress by BRATS filmmaker Donna Musil about the long-term effect on military children of President Truman's 1948 Executive Order integrating the United States military. How has this "grand experiment" fared? How did living in integrated neighborhood 20 years before the Civil Rights Movement affect brats? Are they different from more rooted children? Can this experiment be replicated in other contentious areas? These are just a few of the questions this film will address.
Strangled - A career thief is executed for a series of brutal rapes and murders, but the evidence is conflicting. Did he or didn’t he? Is our criminal justice system designed to even pursue the truth?
EDUCATIONAL & ARTS PROGRAMMING your donation supports
Here are some of the educational and arts programming your donation supports:
Operation Military Brat - Hundreds of free screenings of BRATS: Our Journey Home around the world and on AFN Television in 178 countries (outside the United States), along with donations of Military BRAT Libraries, a collection of books and films about growing up military, to schools and libraries.
UNCLASSIFIED: The Military Kid Art Show - Contemporary art exhibit, celebrating and exploring the Military Brat subculture. Winner of the Newman's Own award for breaking the mold and creating innovative programs that improve the quality of life for military families, past and present.
BRAT Art Institute - the first multidisciplinary art institute for military brats in the world. Programs include art camps and workshops for military brats, led by professional artists who were also raised in military families. and professional development and art curriculum for military-connected schools and students; community forums; and a library to collect and preserve military brat art, history, and research. A joint project of BWB and the Military Kid Art Project™, it's all about fun, making connections, and expressing oneself.
"BRATS 1.0" Educate-the-Educator & Teen Transition Workshops™ - Workshops designed to raise the cultural competency of parents, educators and health professionals, by exploring the effects of mobility, deployment, reintegration, PTSD, and death and injury on military “brats” and TCKs from the child’s point-of-view.
BRATS Clubs™ - After-school and community clubs for children and adults raised in military and other TCK families to gather, grow, and support each other through social, leaderships, and community service activities.