Barbara Sonneborn has worked as a photographer, sculptor, and set designer for 26 years. She designed and directed all visual aspects of Jean-Claude Van Itallie's play Bag Lady, which was produced in New York at the Theater for the New City. She photographed and directed the use of projections in The White Buffalo, produced at Princeton University. Her artwork has been exhibited in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and can be seen in New Directions in Photography, a book edited by then New York Metropolitan Museum of Art curator of photography Weston Naef. Her photographs are also included in many private and museum collections. Her awards include a 1998 Rockefeller Film/Video/Multi-Media Fellowship, the International Documentary Association Award for Distinguished Achievement/ABC News VideoSource Award and two National Endowment for the Arts grants. Regret to Inform is Sonneborn's first film. Her future plans include writing a book about the widows of the Vietnam War, and further films that explore the psychological and societal impact of war.

Barbara Sonneborn made her film as an indictment against war. After seeing Regret to Inform and The Artists' War, what are your thoughts about the film and our panelists' discussion?

Listen to Barbara Sonneborn's January 5th, 2000 Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross.