SOS Festival Awards Update

5 for 5 Ain't Bad

Posted by Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle - EON

We’re Sending Out an SOS

Pro-nuclear forces have launched a multi-faceted feeding-frenzy assault which includes the recent pledge by 22+ countries to triple world nuclear energy production by 2050, and the U.S. Advance Act of 2024 aimed at the same goal. Given the joined-at-the-hip nature of the global Nuclear Enterprise, this is disastrous onslaught that must be countered by massive informed public resistance.

Our SOS distribution campaign, managed by our exlpert Impact consultant team at MocaMedia, is designed to help re-galvanize the once-powerful integrated No Nukes movement countering the entire Nuclear Enterprise, including nuclear energy, weapons and waste management before it was fragmented and weakened into separately siloed sub-movements.

EON is stoked to share the good news that our feature film production SOS - The San Onofre Syndrome has so far been included in five independent film festivals, and won top awards in all of them, and counting….

Here’s the latest:

Here is the awards’ Video Presentation.

Here is their review: https://dariamagazine.wordpress.com/2024/09/16/sos-the-san-onofre-syndrome-2024/

We’re grateful to the organizers of this Festival, Daria Trifu and Bruno Pischiutta are generously making SOS available for free viewing to their organization’s large global audience - built over 13 years - for a limited time until October 13th.

To view SOS, click on this link and scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the SOS thumbnail image.

Please watch and help us spread the word in every way you can.

Thanks to Lisa Smithline, Natalie Vivas and the work of the rest of the MocaMedia team, a collaborative SOS distribution effort with other NoNukes organizations around the country is being built.

A number of them are recognizing the relevance of SOS as an organizing tool to their own regions and constituencies. Here are exerpts from a pitch letter from Greater Boston PSR to the New England bureau chief of the NY Times. They are pitching widely to media outlets, from NY Times to local papers.

Dear Ms. Russell,

Our organization would like to invite you to attend—and to cover—a screening of the film, the San Onofre Syndrome on Wednesday, October 16th. Greater Boston PSR will be hosting an expert panel after the film screening, including Professor Petros Koutrakis (Harvard School of Public Health), Professor Dick Clapp (emeritus, School of Public Health) and emergency medicine physician Dr. Peter Moyer. We are hoping that given your interest in climate and health and the fact that you live in Plymouth and are personally affected by the potential health hazards posed by the decommissioning of the nuclear power station there, that you might be interested in covering this event for the NY Times.

The SOS documentary recounts the history of the closure of a similar nuclear power station in California. The challenges in disposing of massive nuclear waste there parallels similar health hazards faced by the Plymouth community in the context of decommissioning the Massachusetts nuclear power station….

Greater Boston PSR has spearheaded the formation of a consortium of faculty members at Boston College, Harvard University School of Public Health and the advocacy team at the Massachusetts Medical Society; the consortium is actively involved in seeking to expand research regarding the health hazards from contamination stemming from the decommissioning of the Pilgrim nuclear power station in Plymouth. Our physicians would be happy to speak with you and offer their insights about why this issue is both an environmental and a health concern to us, and why communities outside of Plymouth should care.

Thank you for considering covering this issue.

Anna

Anna Linakis, MPH

Executive Director