DOWNWIND
(94 min) US

SUNDAY 10/29, 6:50 PM (SESSION 26)
[watch trailer]

Directors: Mark Samuel Shapiro, Douglas Brian Miller
Producer: Mark Samuel Shapiro

Description:

Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 nuclear weapons on American soil from 1951 to 1992. The fallout is still lethally impacting Americans today. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States’ disregard for everyone living. When we embarked on this journey of discovery, we wanted to understand exactly who was impacted by the detonations at the Nevada Test Site and why, since winds dispersed radioactive fallout from atmospheric blasts (mushroom clouds) and underground testing (venting) in a seemingly unpredictable manner. Despite a moratorium on testing, the Nevada Test Site remains operational and off-limits with the possibility that testing could resume any day.

Biography:

Mark Samuel Shapiro, in his role in film marketing for the animation studio LAIKA from 2007-2019, worked on the publicity campaigns for five Oscar-nominated feature films: Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link. Before LAIKA, he managed community affairs communications for Nike and also worked for Monster.com's Diversity Leadership Program. Mark sits on the Klamath Film Board of Directors and curates animated film programming at festivals around the world.

Douglas Brian Miller is an IATSE local 600 award winning American Director of Photography. In the feature film market, Miller has served as Director of Photography for Why Did You Kill Me, a Netflix True Crime documentary, The Greed of Men and Comix, Beyond the Comic Book Pages on Amazon.

Contact Information:

e: marksamshapiro@gmail.com
w: https://backlotdocs.com/



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