A calmly infuriating look at an environmental nightmare that will have many viewers wondering, "Why haven't I heard of this before?," Rebecca Cammisa's Atomic Homefront introduces the Missouri communities which claim the dubious honor of having some of the world's oldest atomic waste buried in their backyards. More straightforward and less muckraker-ish in tone than many similarly themed documentaries, the film lacks some of the cinematic punch that can help break through the noise of a thousand tales of governmental and corporate wrongdoing. But its dedicated interviewees make the subject's seriousness undeniable and, with luck, their cause will attract attention...
- 11/18/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Atomic Homefront screens Saturday, November 11th at 3:00pm at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Director Marc Meyers will be in attendance. Ticket information can be found Here.
St. Louis has a little-known nuclear past as a uranium-processing center for the atomic bomb. Government and corporate negligence led to the dumping of Manhattan Project uranium, thorium, and radium, thus contaminating North St. Louis suburbs, specifically in two areas: the communities along Coldwater Creek, where residents have high rates of very rare cancers, birth defects, and various autoimmune disorders; and in Bridgeton, adjacent to the West Lake-Bridgeton landfill, where an uncontrolled subsurface fire has been moving toward an area where the radioactive waste was buried. Just Moms Stl, a group of mothers-turned-advocates, believes their communities are being poisoned and demands that the government either fully remove the waste or permanently relocate residents living nearest the landfill.
St. Louis has a little-known nuclear past as a uranium-processing center for the atomic bomb. Government and corporate negligence led to the dumping of Manhattan Project uranium, thorium, and radium, thus contaminating North St. Louis suburbs, specifically in two areas: the communities along Coldwater Creek, where residents have high rates of very rare cancers, birth defects, and various autoimmune disorders; and in Bridgeton, adjacent to the West Lake-Bridgeton landfill, where an uncontrolled subsurface fire has been moving toward an area where the radioactive waste was buried. Just Moms Stl, a group of mothers-turned-advocates, believes their communities are being poisoned and demands that the government either fully remove the waste or permanently relocate residents living nearest the landfill.
- 11/9/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I met with documentary director Rebecca Cammisa, on Friday, June 16, 2017, at AFI Docs 2017, to discuss her new film Atomic Homefront (reviewed here), which takes a probing look at a St. Louis community that has long been contaminated by radioactive waste dating back to the 1940s. At the heart of the story is […]...
- 6/23/2017
- by Christopher Llewellyn Reed
- Hammer to Nail
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