Projects - Sloan Science & Film

Jornada del Muerto Matthaeus Szumanski, 28:20

JORNADA DEL MUERTO is a tale of the psychological cost paid by those who worked on the atomic bomb. A scientist, wracked by guilt over the destruction and death that the bomb will cause, imagines that he has found a poor family living in a shack near the test site’s ground zero.

CREDITS

Directed and written by Matthaeus Szumanski. Produced by Matthaeus Szumanski and Marc Lempert. Edited by Matthaeus Szumanski. Photographed Lisa Wiegand. Production design by Deeya Loram. Music by Daniel Bernstein. Principal cast: David Bauman, Jason Cole, Bob Thompson, Michael Sheeley, Coleen Nicholas.

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Engineering

AWARDS

1997, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television: Production Award

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Short Films
Feature Films

A science focused teaching framework for short and feature films, all of which have received awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their depictions of scientific themes or characters.