Community screenings are great and strategic venues for bringing people together to raise awareness about the currently nuclear to inspire action. When the lights come up people are moved to ask: WHAT CAN I DO?

SUGGESTED GUIDELINES FOR COMMUNITY SCREENINGS
(from WorkingFilms.org)

Step 1. Define your audience and establish outreach goals for the viewing event
Step 2. Locate a venue
Step 3. Publicize your screening
Step 4. Provide the basics:

• If not in a media space, be sure that good projection is provided.

• Seating that's comfortable

• Space for refreshments

• Sign-in for audience -- include name, address, email address, and organizational affiliation (so your organization and your partners can stay in touch with your audience; put them on a mailing list or listserv).

• Think about accessible parking options and list them on the invitation.

• Make sure your event is accessible to all people with disabilities, including your site, the promotion materials, presentations and handouts. Invite people to request accommodations. Remember many films can be shown with subtitles. Be sure to inquire about wheelchair accessibility and make that also available on the invitation.

• Identify a facilitator for the audience discussion or a small panel of experts.

• Identify some actions for your audience that will allow them to engage more directly, especially if the subject is on a social justice issue. Community partners can likely provide suggestions for action steps.

• Offer an additional resources sheet for the audience to take home and learn more about the issue.

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007)

We especially encourage you to take advantage of the August HBO premiere of Academy Award-winner Steven Okazaki's powerful new film, White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The critically acclaimed documentary features 14 Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors and is a remarkable document of the only times nuclear weapons have been used in war. Organize a house party or community screening and discussion -- if you don't get HBO, you can order a special community screening DVD from UFPJ.* Download a White Light/Black Rain Discussion Guide or a ND Action Tool Kit to help focus the discussion on the current nuclear threat and what people can do about it.

* Please Note:  Under no circumstance may any admission be charged for attending a house party or community screening using the UFPJ DVD's, and any attempt to do so will result in revocation of permission for your organization to use the documentary for these purposes. 

The Last Atomic Bomb:
The Last Atomic Bomb by Robert Richter and Kathleen Sullivan
White Light Black Rain by Steven Okazaki
The Mushroom Club by Steven Okazaki
Genie in a Bottle: Unleashed by Stephen Sotor and Trace Gaynor
Final Frontier: Explorers or Warriors? by Stephen Sotor and Trace Gaynor
Original Child Bomb by Carey Schonegevel

Two powerful, recent films about Chernobyl:

Chernobyl Heart by Maryann De Leo
Half-Life: A Journey to Chernobyl by David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky

Cult Classics:

Black Rain
Dr. Strangelove
On the Beach
Atomic Cafe
The Day After
Hiroshima Mon Amour

Older films:

Dark Circle by Judy Irving and Chris Beaver
Nagasaki Journey by Judy Irving and Chris Beaver
Atomic Filmmakers