(Source) http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/2013/10/08/a2-b-c-educational-film-screening-and-discussion-with-director-ian-thomas-ash-at-university-of-california/
What is life like for families unable to evacuate in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster? Award-winning documentary film director Ian Thomas Ash gives us an inside view of the challenges faced by people remaining in Fukushima.
Hot spots, decontamination, radiation monitoring, thyroid testing—and a growing unease about the future that lies ahead for the children.
**“A2-B-C” refers to the classifications of thyroid cysts and nodules.
Date: October 21, 2013. 7:00PM to 10:00PM
Location: University of California, Irvine
Social Science Plaza A (SSPA) 1100
Please RSVP via Facebook; email--FforSECCA@gmail.com; Tel./Text--714-642-6701.
(By Families For Safe Energy - FforSE )
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Coming
Home
In
the middle of this tour accompanying 'A2-B-C' to film festivals all
over the world (SCREENINGS),
this week I am actually back home in Japan attending the Yamagata
International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF). The festival
takes place only once every two years, and it has been my dream to
someday screen one of my documentaries here.
I
arrived in Yamagata yesterday straight from the UK, spending just one
night in Tokyo where I picked up some more supplies and warm clothes
(the first part of the tour was in Florida and Guam, and this morning
in Yamagata the kerosene heaters in the inn's lobby are gentle
creaking away).
'A2-B-C'
was programmed in the 「ともにある」,
or "Cinema With Us", strand of YIDFF, which is a program of
documentary films that all deal with the March 11, 2011 disaster in
some way (INFO in ENGLISH/日本語).
It is significant that this program takes place here as Yamagata
Prefecture is in Tohoku, the region of Japan that was so devastated
by the disaster. Yamagata also lies beside Fukushima, and many
people who fled the radioactive contamination have re-settled here.
All
of the screenings in the "Cinema With Us" strand take place
in the beautiful Yamagata Museum of Art, which itself is a sight to
behold.
The
screening took place yesterday (LISTING in ENGLISH/日本語),
and because of its close proximity to Fukushima, several of the
families who appear in 'A2-B-C' were able to attend. It was an
amazing experience to be able to share the film with them as they sat
in an audience where some of the people attending were so-called
'nuclear refugees'.
After
the screening, the festival prepared a room for us so that the
families and I could share some private time together away from
the lobby where festival attendees were eager to meet and take photos
of the 'A2-B-C' mothers and children. We talked about their
experience of watching the film along with the general public and
what they hope to gain from upcoming screen of the film in Japan and
abroad. As is tradition, \i filmed post-screening messages, but this
time not from the festival goers, but from the families themselves.
When
I asked what they wanted to tell the world, one of the fathers
quickly said, "Tell them that nothing has changed.
Nothing."
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