Flashes of Hope: Hibakusha Traveling the World

PEACE BOAT DOCUMENTARY FILM – for a nuclear-free world Japan-based worldwide NGO Peace Boat has organised the “World Voyage for a Nuclear-Free World: Peace Boat Hibakusha Challenge” since 2008. It is a documentary movie of the primary mission following 103 Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) as they visited 23 ports in 20 nations from September seventh 2008 to January thirteenth 2009. They traveled all over the world onboard Peace Boat to share testimonies and their messages for nuclear abolition to residents and governments. This movie follows the journey of the Hibakusha, notably Setsuko Thurlow – who migrated to Canada after experiencing the bombing of Hiroshima. From the attitude of a Costa Rican filmmaker Erika Bagnarello, the movie introduces the hopes folded into the orizuru – origami paper cranes – by the unique animation “Sadako (a lady who died of most cancers on account of radiation),” and “flashes of hope” for a world freed from nuclear weapons. Together with commentary by consultants from Australia, the US, UK and elsewhere who participated within the voyage, the movie additionally reveals the hyperlinks between nuclear weapons, energy and mining, in addition to the results of nuclear testing. The movie is really useful as an introductory instructional materials on nuclear points by the United Nations Workplace for Disarmament Affairs, and has been screened on the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Evaluate Convention (Could 2010), movie festivals on the United Nations and all over the world since its completion in late 2009.
Side Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.5 ounces
Merchandise mannequin quantity ‏ : ‎ B004PGNJ7G
Director ‏ : ‎ Erika Bagnarello
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 1 minute
Launch date ‏ : ‎ February 25, 2011
Producers ‏ : ‎ Akira Kawasaki & Erika Bagnarello
Studio ‏ : ‎ Costa Rica Filmworks & Peace Boat
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004PGNJ7G
Writers ‏ : ‎ Erika Bagnarello
Variety of discs ‏ : ‎ 1