Documentary Film “A2-B-C”: What is happening to Children
living in FUKUSHIMA?
Masatoshi
Takeshita
June 22,
2014
(Note) *Introduction of Director
Ian
Thomas Ash
He was born in 1975
He comes from New York, U.S.A.
The first documentary film he made “the ballad
of Vicki and jake) (2006) won the prize for the best film in the
documentary film festival Nyon Vision du Reel held in
Switzerland.
He has been living in Japan for 13 years since
his first visit to Japan as an English teacher in 2000.
He filmed a documentary “in the Graey Zone”
(2012), in which he covered the life of people who have been
living in the vicinity of the evacuation zone in Fukushima
Prefecture since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
accident. The film
won the New Director Award and the People’s Choice Award in the
Rhode Island International Film Festival.
This film, which covers children in Fukushima,
has also been widely acclaimed around the world.
His newest film “- 1287” (2014), which
documents the final days of the life of his friend suffering from
cancer, is waiting to be released.
Video: YouTube – April 8, 2014 –
Japanese website: www.a2-b-c.com
ENGLISH Website: www.a2documentary.com
Synopsis: Many of children in Fukushima
were not allowed to be evacuated after the meltdowns. The number of children in
Fukushima with cysts and lumps is increasing. What does it mean for their
future?
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