Event

Docs on Nukes: Nuclear Narratives through the Art of Film

THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE - This month's screening selected by Kathleen Sullivan, in celebration of Mothers Day.
Docs on Nukes: Nuclear Narratives through the Art of Film

Witness to Hiroshima
(Dir. Kathy Sloane, 2010, 16 min.)
Japanese citizen Keiji Tsuchiya, using his 12 powerful watercolors, recounts his experiences in Hiroshima as a 17-year-old soldier immediately following the dropping of the atomic bomb, and relates those experiences to his subsequent life-long commitment to saving the Japanese horseshoe crab and its habitat.

***Special Sneak Preview***
Atomic Mom
(Dir. M.T. Silvia, 2010, 87 min.)
Atomic Mom is a documentary about two women, both mothers, who have opposite experiences of the atomic bomb. After decades of silence, a daughter's quest for truth leads to the exchange of an olive branch between an American Scientist and a Hiroshima Survivor.

Post screening panel discussion with filmmakers, Kathy Sloane and M.T. Silvia and Kathleen Sullivan, PhD, Program Director of Hibakusha Stories.

The People's Choice is a monthly screening series based upon audience suggestions. You can suggest a film by emailing us at: cinema@mayslesinstitute.org