''Father Xmas'' is a 2001 short film from director Marie Rose and the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women starring

Dakota Fanning Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994) is an American actress. She rose to prominence at the age of seven for her performance as Lucy Dawson in the drama film ''I Am Sam'' (2001), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomin ...

in her debut as six-year-old Clairee who learns from her older brother ( Stephen Fanning) that Santa Claus is not real and that their father is fighting in the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...

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''Double Dog Music'' website
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