HBO and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs Host Chicago Premiere of 'White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki' on Tuesday, July 31

HBO and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs Host Chicago Premiere of 'White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki' on Tuesday, July 31

     Special Guests: Director Steven Okazaki; Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima        survivor and Theodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk, Navigator, Enola Gay    WHAT:    HBO in partnership with The Chicago Council on Global Affairs            present an invitation-only screening of Academy(R)Award-winner            Steven Okazaki's new film "White Light Black Rain: The            Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."    WHO:     Panelists include:            -- Steven Okazaki -- Academy(R)Award-winning director            -- Shigeko Sasamori, who survived the bombing at Hiroshima and               was one of the 25 Hiroshima Maidens, brought to the U.S. for               plastic surgery            -- Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk -- Navigator of the Enola Gay, B-29               bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima            -- Yuki Miyamoto, Ph. D., Assistant Professor at the Department               of Religious Studies, DePaul University, whose grandfather and               mother were in Hiroshima the day the bomb dropped.            -- Kennette Benedict, Executive Director of Bulletin of Atomic               Scientists will moderate the Q&A    WHEN:    Tuesday, July 31, 2007            5:30 p.m. -- Reception            6:30 p.m. -- Screening and Q&A    WHERE:   Gene Siskel Film Center            164 North State Street, Chicago    DETAILS: As global tensions rise, the unthinkable now seems possible. The            threat of nuclear "weapons of mass destruction" has become            frighteningly real. WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN: THE DESTRUCTION OF            HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, by Academy(R) Award-winning filmmaker            Steven Okazaki, looks at the reality of nuclear warfare with            first-hand accounts as told by survivors as well as some of the            American men who carried out the bombing mission. Currently, the            world has an arsenal large enough to repeat the destruction at            Hiroshima 400,000 times over.   

WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN will premiere on HBO August 6, 2007 on the 62nd anniversary of the bombings.

* Interviews with panelists and screeners of the film are available.

* Media is encouraged to register with Hugh McMullen (312-408-2580 x15 / hugh@vdcom.com).

CONTACT: Hugh McMullen of Valerie Denney Communications, +1-312-408-2580 ext. 15, +1-740-707-7493 (cell), hugh@vdcom.com, for HBO

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