'A Short Film About Guns' examines the illegal arms trade across the globe, featuring four experts on arms trafficking who recount their varying first hand experiences with the black market trade in areas of conflict and how the illegal flow of weapons facilitates loss of life and devastation: * Kathi Lynn Austin, arms trafficking investigator. * Ishmael Beah, former child soldier, author 'A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a Boy Soldier'. * Paul Conroy, Sunday Times war photographer. * Stuart Franklin Platt, Rear Admiral US Navy (ret.), author 'Letters From the Front Line' Director Minos Papas partnered with the Control Arms coalition, including Oxfam International, to produce the film, which was screened at the UN during the conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, 2012.