Karen O'Connor

Movies

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Director
This intimate and candid portrait of American music legend and civil rights activist Joan Baez interweaves images from her farewell tour with previously unseen footage and highly intimate insights into her life and emotions. Not just for Baez fans.
Growing Up Trans
Producer
Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who changed genders. But today, many children are transitioning, too—with new medical options, and at younger and younger ages. Told from the perspective of parents, doctors, and, most revealing of all, the kids themselves, the documentary takes a powerful look at this new generation, exploring the medical possibilities, struggles and choices transgender kids and their families face today.
Growing Up Trans
Director
Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who changed genders. But today, many children are transitioning, too—with new medical options, and at younger and younger ages. Told from the perspective of parents, doctors, and, most revealing of all, the kids themselves, the documentary takes a powerful look at this new generation, exploring the medical possibilities, struggles and choices transgender kids and their families face today.
Growing Up Trans
Writer
Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who changed genders. But today, many children are transitioning, too—with new medical options, and at younger and younger ages. Told from the perspective of parents, doctors, and, most revealing of all, the kids themselves, the documentary takes a powerful look at this new generation, exploring the medical possibilities, struggles and choices transgender kids and their families face today.
The Boys from Baghdad High
Executive Producer
During 2006-07, four students keep a video diary of their final year at Tariq bin Ziad High School in Baghdad. As violence escalates, the four prepare to take the National Exams they must pass in June to secure their diploma. They are Ali, a Kurd, Anmar, a Christian who starts the school year not having heard from his girlfriend for a few days, and a Shia and a Sunni - Hayder, a rap poet and songwriter, and Mohammad, fatherless, living with his mother and extended family. Amid explosions, gunfire, and power outages, they study, wrestle, play games, listen to music, dance, and talk boy talk. Mid-year, one moves north, safe but bored. Will they pass their exams? Will they live?
The Undertaking
Director
Storyville presents a profile of Irish-American poet and undertaker Thomas Lynch.
Correspondent: Gun Traffic
Editor
Correspondent: Gun Traffic highlights a worrying lack of control over arms dealing. The programme discovers a new twist: guns are now being made specifically for criminal groups around Europe, including Britain. The world's attention may be focused on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in countries such as Iraq and North Korea. But gun trafficking is still growing and gun crime in Britain alone has doubled in the last 10 years. Are illegally traded guns the real weapons of mass destruction?