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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