Hibakusha Stories Film Festival
In Celebration of Mothers Day, May 9
Hibakusha Stories and Maysles Cinema present:
Docs on Nukes — nuclear narratives
through the art of film
Bring your mom,
bring your friends,
bring your anti-nuclear family
Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Avenue
(Malcolm X Boulevard)
New York, NY, 10027
Between 127th and 128th
2,3,4,5,6, A,B,C,D subways to 125th street
212-582-6050
Witness to Hiroshima
Directed by Kathy Sloane, 2010
Running Time: 15:56 minutes
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.
http://www.witnesstohiroshima.com
And Special Sneak Preview
Atomic Mom
Directed by M.T. Silvia, 2010
Running Time: 87 minutes
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.
http://www.atomicmom.org
Post screening panel discussion with the San Francisco Bay Area based filmmakers, Kathy Sloane and M.T. Silvia and New York-based Kathleen Sullivan, PhD, Program Director of Hibakusha Stories.