Among the titles announced to play in Park City for Slamdance is 'Downwind,' a look at nuclear-weapons testing in Nevada and the radioactive fallout landing in Utah and beyond.
‘Downwind’ is one of 34 movies selected for the festival, playing in January in Park City and Salt Lake City.
“Downwind,” directed by Shapiro and Douglas Brian Miller, chronicles the nuclear testing that happened in southern Nevada — specifically, the closed-off town of Mercury, which saw some 928 nuclear weapons detonated between 1951 and 1992. The filmmakers talk to members of the Shoshone Nation, whose sacred land continues to be cordoned off as a nuclear test site. The movie also features “downwinders,” people who have suffered from the radioactive fallout of those tests.
The fallout from the Nevada test site, Miller said, wasn’t limited to Nevada, Utah and the southwestern United States. He pointed to a famous map, created by a researcher named Richard Miller , that showed radioactivity detected between 1951 and 1962 from Nevada all the way to the Atlantic. The L.A. punk band OFF! — Dimitri Coats, unknown alien, Keith Morris and Autry Fulbright II, from left — are featured in the sci-fi comedy "Free LSD," directed by Coats. It's one of the films selected for the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival, which is scheduled to run Jan. 20-26, 2023, in Park City, Utah.
The 34 feature films were chosen from 1,522 movies submitted. All of the narrative and documentary competition films, in accordance with festival rules, are by first-time directors, without U.S. distribution, with budgets of less than $1 million. The festival’s Breakouts section is devoted to films by directors making their second or later movies.. The Slamdance Channel is available for $7.99 a month through Roku, Amazon Fire Stick or Apple TV.
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