EVENT: SCREENING
CATEGORY: BEST OF THE WORLD SERIES
DIRECTOR: MICHAEL CAMERINI
DIRECTOR: JOHN JUNKERMAN

COUNTRY: USA
LENGTH: 58 minutes
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
GENRE: DOCUMENTARY
RATING: N/A
AGES: 13+ Mature subject matter

This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb drops.
For the second year the SLC Film Center is proud to be part of this observance and to partner with HEAL Utah, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, People for Peace and Justice, the Catholic Peace & Justice Commission, and the Religious Society of Friends.

The film, HELLFIRE: A JOURNEY FROM HIROSHIMA explores the work and life of Iri and Toshi Maruki, husband and wife Japanese artists who traveled to Hiroshima shortly after the bomb was dropped and who have spent there lives turning the horror of what they saw into hauntingly horrific and beautiful works of art known as the Hiroshima Murals. For their work, they have received the World Culture Award and in 1995 were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

We choose this film because it exemplifies the strength and courage of a peaceful response in the face of unimaginable violence. These murals are a stunning, indelible memory of the so very painful lesson delivered by the horrors of war which we as humans have forgotten time and time again.

Join us for a poignant evening that will end with a short candle-light vigil of meditative readings and song from the One Voice Children's Choir in the amphitheater on the plaza at the City Library.