POWERHOUSE Forum: A Book & Film Forum About Our Nuclear Culture

After decades of working on their respective projects, authors, filmmakers and experts will share their extensive knowledge about the hidden health fallout from the atomic and nuclear industry.

They will also discuss what we can do to protect our health and save our earth.

Author and filmmaker JILL MURPHY LONG with her forthcoming book and feature film (of same title) of PLUTONIUM SKIES has organized this very timely forum with billionaires now in the nuclear game.

She has invited other experts to join her on Sunday, October 19, 2025.

Doors open at 2:45 pm.

Film Screening and Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A. Concludes by 5:00 pm.

Hosted by Bridgetown Conservatory of Musical Theatre

Located at 711 Northwest 14th Avenue in Portland, Oregon 97205

Author TRISHA T. PRITIKIN will screen her trailer for her new book, THEN CAME THE SUMMER SNOW, and will autograph her books for those who bring their copies. She will speak from personal experience of living next to Hanford where her father was a nuclear engineer and also talk about her first book HANFORD PLAINTIFFS: VOICES FROM THE FIGHT FOR ATOMIC JUSTICE.

Portland-based filmmaker MARK SHAPIRO will discuss DOWNWIND, an Oscar-qualifying, award-winning documentary movie, featuring Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen and Lewis Black, which won at eight film festivals and was nominated at two others. This movie is a harrowing exposé of the United States’ blatant disregard for everyone living downwind after 928 atomic bombs were detonated in Nevada and the radioactive fallout that hit almost every state.

Joining the panel from the East Coast will be filmmaker WILLIAM NUNEZ, who will talk about his documentary movie, THE CONQUEROR: THE HOLLYWOOD FALLOUT. This is the shocking story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that help bring this catastrophe to light.

The screening will also include the concept trailer for the feature film, PLUTONIUM SKIES, and a cautionary short film MELTDOWN IN THE PACIFIC by filmmaker JILL MURPHY LONG. Jill is the Director of JML ADVOCATES with ethics based on Justice, Mercy and Love that spotlights injustices for survivors and families of the victims harmed by exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear sites.

She will be sharing her personal experiences of being diagnosed and her in-depth research with survivors and experts from around the world to write her narrative, nonfiction book, her feature film screenplay that is based on true events, and her TV docu-drama series, POWERHOUSE.

A few other relevant short videos will be included to show how the nuclear industry has infiltrated our culture without setting off any alarming responses because they always claim, “There has been no harm to public health and safety” after every accident, leak, and meltdown.

We are very pleased to announce, GERRY POLLET, the Executive Director at HEART OF AMERICA NORTHWEST will be joining us. He leads the region’s largest public group, advocating for the cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. As a Washington State U.S. Representative and lawyer, he wrote and directed the statewide ballot referendum, which stopped Hanford from becoming the nation’s High-Level Nuclear Waste dump. Gerry has organized legal effort that stopped the U.S. Department of Energy from dumping radioactive chemical wastes into unlined ditches at Hanford in 2004 and continues working to require U.S. Department of Energy to protect the Columbia River. He is actively engaged with his college students as a professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Western Washington University’s College of Environment.

We are also very grateful to have also on the panel, DR. VINCENT INTONDI, the Executive Director of OREGON PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. He is a nuclear disarmament expert whose research focuses on the intersection of race and nuclear weapons with more than twenty years of grassroots organizing, academic, and non-governmental organization experience. Throughout his career, he has researched, written, and spoken about environmental justice including the effects of climate change, fossil fuels, nuclear waste, and mining on marginalized and indigenous communities. Dr. Intondi is the author of AFRICAN AMERICANS AGAINST THE BOMB: NUCLEAR WEAPONS, COLONIALISM and SAVING THE WORLD FROM NUCLEAR WAR: THE JUNE 12, 1982, DISARMAMENT RALLY AND BEYOND (Johns Hopkins University Press).

From their personal and professional experiences, they will spotlight the dark truths about nuclear power including how the atomic industry “rebranded” itself to nuclear in the 1950s with the help of Walt Disney and ABC.

Experts, who lived too close to America’s most radioactive site, Hanford and Trojan Park also on our Columbia River, will reveal what local residents need to know about ionizing radiation.

They will also uncover the hidden health fallout from the atomic bomb testing in Nevada and from Three Mile Island, the world’s first meltdown at a commercial nuclear power plant.

They will share how not even Hollywood actors and crew were immunize from the fallout from the nuclear industry.

The Moderator of this inspiring and compelling forum will be Portland Actor SCOTT BERNARD NELSON.

Tickets can be purchased online for the suggested donation of $15.

Or with cash at the door.

Doors open at 2:45 pm to allow for guests to purchase snacks and beverages and “mix and mingle” with the guest speakers and local actors and film crew, who will be in attendance during this time.

The general public including children are welcome.

A special thank you to Rick and Diego of Bridgetown Conservatory of Musical Theatre for making this POWERHOUSE Forum possible.

For more information, please visit:

https://bridgetownconservatory.org/

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