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Photo taken at world premiere of Radiation Filters, San Francisco.
サンフランシスコで開催されたRadiation Filtersのワールドプレミアで撮影された写真。
Nuclear energy, whether you like it or not, has a place in society. In fact, its waste product will be around for 20,000 years and more. From that perspective, let's take a harder look at how the industry operates, and especially at the consequences of this highly toxic way of boiling water to make energy.
Radiation Filters is the story of several fictional characters who explore the very real and very near landscape of nuclear energy in California and Japan.
Originally intended as a series of webisodes, this exploration into the aftermath of the meltdown disaster at Fukushima took our filmmakers on a journey to find nuclear energy, literally in their own backyard. (Yes, there is buried nuclear waste in San Francisco.)
During production of these short episodes, it became clear that this project needed to expand into a feature length film, and so one Kickstarter campaign and $20,000 later, what you see is a low-budget, full-hearted attempt at a movie that teaches as much as it entertains.
This film in an invitation to kindness. It transcends traditional filmmaking boundaries and becomes aware of its own unfolding. It asks you to look at the energy you put out into the world, and at what you choose to do once you've become aware of the truth.
