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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 | 01:03 PM

From Washington to Moscow screening this Friday!

This Friday, August 6, on the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, George and Sonia Cullinen’s 1981 film, From Washington to Moscow, will be screened at Burlington College. The short documentary chronicles an anti-nuclear weapons protest march, in which activists marched form Washington, Vermont to Moscow, Vermont on August 6, 1981. Many of the original filmmakers and activists from that day will be present at the screening.

From Washington to Moscow won the UNESCO prize at the 1983 Hiroshima International Film Festival in Japan, and George and Sonia Cullinen went on to help found the first Earth Peace Film Festival in 1985, which over the years became the Vermont International Film Festival.

Come see the film that started it all! The Facebook event page is here.

Note: this screening is being presented by a group of Vermonters who were associated with the original 1981 march. It’s not an official VTIFF event, but we are proud to ally ourselves with these courageous activists.

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