
928 The Threat Continues… Film Screening
DATE: Friday, January 10 2025
TIME: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm MST
LOCATION: College of Law
COST: Free and open to the public.
No CLE available.
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Leftwood Pictures presents the directors’ cut premiere and Q&A panel for the feature documentary “928 The Threat Continues…”
“928 The Threat Continues” is the story of deadly nuclear contamination from atomic testing at the Nevada test site told through interviews with cancer victims, contamination experts and archival video clips of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) officials and scientists of the time.
The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the following speakers.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Mary Dickson, fall 2024 community practitioner in residence at the University of Utah Environmental Humanities program
Mary Dickson is an award-winning writer, downwinder, and thyroid cancer survivor from Salt Lake City, Utah, and an internationally recognized advocate for survivors of U.S. nuclear weapons testing. Mary has written and spoken widely about the human toll of nuclear weapons testing at conferences, symposia, and forums across the U.S. and Japan, including twice at the World Forum of Survivors of Nuclear Weapons in Hiroshima. She also participated in the ICAN Nuclear Ban Week in Vienna, Austria, in 2022, in conjunction with the First Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Recently, Mary lectured and participated in panels and seminars as a guest educator with the Japanese NGO Peaceboat on a global “Voyage for a Nuclear-Free World” from New York to South and Central America and Mexico.
Danielle Endres, professor of communication and director of the Environmental Humanities program (welcome and introduction)
Danielle Endres (she/her) is a Professor of Communication and Director of the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah. Her research areas are Environmental Communication, Indigenous Communication, and Rhetorical Studies. Her research projects focus on the rhetoric of environmental and science controversies including nuclear waste siting decisions, climate change, and energy transitions. Her work is guided by principles of environmental justice and focuses on how underrepresented and marginalized groups, particularly Native peoples and nations, engage in environmental advocacy. Endres is the author of Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting, co-author of Participatory Critical Rhetoric: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Studying Rhetoric In Situ, and co-editor of several books, including the Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. The National Science Foundation and several fellowships from the University of Utah have funded her research. Endres is currently working on two projects: analysis of energy justice campaigns in Puerto Rico, and a collaborative project with the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation to collect historical archives for the nation.
Kate Fosselman, co-director of “928 The Threat Continues…” and owner of Leftwood Pictures
Kate is a Graduate Cum Laude from Art Center College of Design in a dual Major of Advertising and Illustration. Early in her career she was involved in the development of the “Jelly Belly” candy concept and created the logo for “Jelly Belly” jellybeans. She has worked in the advertising agency business as a Print and TV art director and creative director for several top Los Angeles agencies; Dentsu/Y&R, Benton & Bowles and Daily and Associates. She was Director of Advertising at HoneyBaked Hams for nearly 10 years, creating highly successful TV advertising campaigns, print ads, outdoor boards and promotional materials for the brand. More recently, working as a film director and editor she has worked on numerous commercials, promotional videos and short documentaries for the web. In 2017, working with Director Steve Jarvis, Kate co-produced and edited the award winning feature documentary film, The Women In The Sand. Currently, Kate is co-director with Steve Jarvis and editor on the feature documentary, 928 The Threat Continues…
Bill Heller, author
Bill Heller is an award-winning author of 27 books including two about the fallout in Troy, Albany and Schenectady, New York, from the 1953 atom bomb test named Simon at the Nevada Test Site. “A Good Day Has No Rain” and “Stolen Lives” document the incident and its effects, which included an ungodly number of Hodgkin’s cases at Albany High School and neighboring schools. The data collected and reported by area scientists may be the only independent measurements from any of the hundreds of atom bomb tests. Heller was born in Liberty, N.Y., roughly 90 miles from Albany, one month before the Simon test. Heller and his wife Marianne live in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Heller’s son
Benjamin, an accomplished marathon runner, and his wife Cate live in Albany.
Steve Jarvis, co-director of “928 The Threat Continues…” and owner of Leftwood Pictures (moderator)
Steve is a DGA film director with a professional background directing national TV commercials, documentary films and web videos. Steve grew up in Tujunga, California and attended Verdugo Hills High School. After 2 years of service in the Army he attended Art Center College of Design and received a BA Degree In Advertising Design. After college, Steve worked in the advertising agency business for about 25 years as an Art Director and Creative Director, He became a DGA Commercial Film Director in1999 and directed TV commercials in Los Angeles. Steve’s first documentary experience was directing a short film, “Roy’s Market” which was honored with a special screening at the Chicago Art Institute. Later, he directed an independent TV pilot/documentary, “Wine Geeks In Paradise”. In 2012, his passion for exploring and protecting the desert and it’s history led him to directing his first feature documentary film, finished in 2017, the award winning movie The Women In The Sand. Steve’s latest film was co-directed with his wife and co-director, Kate Fosselman. Steve and Kate became a powerful film making team and fearless social justice advocates. The result is the stunning feature documentary film, 928 The Threat Continues…
Richard Miller, industrial safety expert and author of “Under the Clouds: The Decades of Nuclear Testing” and other books
Richard Miller is a writer, researcher, and consultant. He is the author of Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing, a documentary history of America’s above-ground nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s
Mr. Miller has also authored the five-volume U.S. Atlas of Nuclear Fallout. Other publications include “Association between radioactive fallout from 1951–1962 US nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site and cancer mortality in midwestern US populations” in the Russian Journal of Ecology (coauthored with Lief Peterson), and a novel, The Atomic Express.
He is currently completing a statistical analysis of mortality rates between 1951 and 1998 versus individual fallout radioisotope deposition amounts in the United States, planned for publication in 2025.
Mr. Miller has participated and appeared in several film documentaries about nuclear fallout, including “Time Bombs, 2007, directed by Eric Ruel and Guylaine Maroist; “Silent Fallout,” 2024, directed by Hideaki Ito; and “928 The Threat Continues,” 2024, directed by Steve Jarvis and Kate Fosselman.
In 2007, Mr. Miller collaborated with attorney Robert Hager and a team of experts in a lawsuit opposing the Divine Strake bunker-buster bomb experiment at the Nevada Test site. The lawsuit resulted in postponement and eventual cancellation of the planned detonation.
Mr. Miller is president of Legis Corp., a Houston-based consulting firm that provides litigation support in occupational health and safety matters. Mr. Miller’s current focus is providing expert services in litigation involving silica, asbestos, carbon monoxide, and diesel exhaust exposures to railroad employees.
He began his career with the U.S. Department of Labor as an OSHA compliance officer. In this role, Mr. Miller investigated cases of glioblastoma at Union Carbide in Texas. The investigation eventually turned up 10 more cases at the facility, comprising the largest cluster of glioblastoma multiform ever discovered. Mr. Miller subsequently coauthored a paper on the investigation that appeared in the first issue of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
Sponsored by the University of Utah Environmental Humanities Program and the Wallace Stegner Center.
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