PEACE BOAT DOCUMENTARY FILM - for a nuclear-free world
Japan-based international NGO Peace Boat has organised the "Global
Voyage for a Nuclear-Free World: Peace Boat Hibakusha Project" since
2008. This is a documentary film of the first project following 103
Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) as they visited 23 ports in 20
countries from September 7th 2008 to January 13th 2009. They traveled
around the world onboard Peace Boat to share testimonies and their
messages for nuclear abolition to citizens and governments.
This film follows the journey of the Hibakusha, particularly Setsuko
Thurlow - who migrated to Canada after experiencing the bombing of
Hiroshima. From the perspective of a Costa Rican filmmaker Erika
Bagnarello, the film introduces the hopes folded into the orizuru -
origami paper cranes - through the original animation "Sadako (a girl
who died of cancer as a result of radiation)," and "flashes of hope"
for a world free of nuclear weapons.
Including commentary by experts from Australia, the US, UK and
elsewhere who participated in the voyage, the film also shows the
links between nuclear weapons, power and mining, as well as the
effects of nuclear testing.
The film is recommended as an introductory educational material on
nuclear issues by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs,
and has been screened at the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review
Conference (May 2010), film festivals at the United Nations and around
the world since its completion in late 2009.
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