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No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki
Winner of the Colin Low Award
Best Canadian Documentary - National Film Board of Canada
Canadian Documentary Premiere on OMNI.2
Japanese language version – Sunday, March 30th at 7PM ET on OMNI.2
Alternative Broadcast: at 10PM
English Language Version: COMING SOON!
March 20, 2008 - Toronto, ON - Rogers OMNI Television is proud to present the world premiere broadcast of No More Hiroshima No More Nagasaki, as part of the OMNI Television Documentary Special series. The 60 minute documentary launches to Japanese speaking viewers on OMNI.2, Sunday, March 30th at 7:00 p.m. with an encore presentation later that same night at 10:00 p.m.
The first major project for Nakamura International and winner of Best Canadian Documentary at Vancouver’s DOXA Film Festival, No More Hiroshima No More Nagasaki is a powerful telling of the horrendous disaster of the August 1945 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and countless more died slowly of radiation.
Only a few are still alive to tell the story.
In No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki, viewers meet Hibakusha -- the remaining survivors of the world’s first and only nuclear war – and learn their heart wrenching stories. The only visual record of those first moments of horror on the ground is in the artwork created by Hibakusha. Their message is as haunting as their images: peace must prevail with the lessons learned.
As the production and stockpile of nuclear weapons continues to grow throughout the world, No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki reminds us of the cost of atomic warfare in human lives and unimaginable destruction. The English language version launches on OMNI.1, Sunday, May 11th at 8:30 pm.
No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasakiwas exclusively funded through OMNI's Independent Producers Initiative, a $32.5 million independent production fund that to date has supported over 200 new documentary programmes. Interested producers can access funding criteria at OMNI Television’s web site http://www.omnitv.ca/ontario/info/funds .
About Rogers OMNI Television
OMNI Television is a free over-the-air system consisting of regional broadcasters with the collective mandate to reflect Canada’s diversity through the airing of inclusive and accessible programming: multilingual/multicultural stations OMNI.1 (CFMT) and OMNI.2 (CJMT), along with two newly granted (June, 2007) licences for similarly mandated ethnocultural stations in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta; all are owned and operated by Rogers Communications in the Rogers Media division.
OMNI.2 is currently available across Canada to Starchoice subscribers on channel 395, and to ExpressVu subscribers on channel 216. LOOK carries OMNI.2 on channel 70 in Ontario.
About the producers
Producer/Director Yuki Nakamura was born in Tokyo, Japan and came to Canada in 1989. After graduating from York University in 1994, she has become a well-known Japanese media professional. No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki is her first documentary film. Producer/Editor Timothy Richards has a BFA Specialized Honours Degree in Film & Editing Video Production and his career has been primarily in the documentary sector. His work has been featured on several national networks and international specialty channels
To secure a screening copy of No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki, photos for print or to interview anyone associated with its production please contact:
OMNI-TV Media Contact:
Sandy Zwyer – Programme Information Coordinator, 416-260-3590
sandy.zwyer@rci.rogers.com
Nakamura International Contact:
Yuki Nakamura - Producer/Director, 647-272-2927
yukinakamura@rogers.com
