Countdown to Zero
+ masterclass with director Lucy Walker
SPECIAL PREVIEW
Filmmaker: Lucy Walker
USA / 2010 / 91 min / English
Awards: nominated, Best Documentary, International Press Academy Satellite Film Awards 2010
BFI Southbank NFT1, Wed 16 March, 8.15pm
A compelling investigation into nuclear arms proliferation from internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker
Intelligent, detailed and fiercely argued, Countdown To Zero traces the history of atomic weapons from their origins to present day proliferation, including contributions from Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair. Berlin, Sundance and AFI Award-winner Lucy Walker (Waste Land, Blindsight) makes the compellingly bleak argument that without immediate worldwide disarmament we risk disaster on a daily basis from terrorism, failed diplomacy or even simple accident.
This is a special preview courtesy of Dogwoof. Screening followed by masterclass with director Lucy Walker, one of the world's foremost documentary filmmakers and winner of more awards than she could carry in two suitcases.
'Hair-raising'
Wall Street Journal
'Walker powerfully revives the subject... extraordinary'
Guardian
Screening co-presented with Dochouse
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Lucy Walker
Nominated for the 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary, Lucy Walker has won numerous awards for her documentary feature films which include Waste Land, Devil’s Playground and Blindsight, the former being the first film ever to win the Audience Award at both the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, as well as being Academy Award shortlisted. The British documentarian has also won Emmy, AFI, Amnesty International and IDFA Awards among many others, becoming internationally reputed for what the LA Times describes as ‘a fearless interest in inaccessible subjects or places’.