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Our results are in.
After spending 30 of the past 55 weeks in Fukushima, Japan, living in places contaminated by nuclear fallout, visiting even more highly contaminated places, drinking the water and eating the food, we...
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Rio+20: Four Fukushima Farmers
This video, capturing the diverse views of four Fukushima activist farmers, screens beginning June 16 in the Rio+20 United Nations Sustainable Development Conference, where one of our main subjects,...
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Support Uncanny Terrain with Motion Gallery
We are in the midst of a campaign with Japanese crowdfunding site Motion Gallery, who raised $70,000 toward the production of Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami’s Japan-shot Like Someone in Love that...
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About Harvest interview with Uncanny Terrain codirector Ed M. Koziarski
by Nancy O’Mallon About Harvest June 20, 2012 AH: What was the impetus for you to start the documentary, and when will it premiere EK: We knew we wanted to tell a story about the 3/11 disaster, and in...
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Screening footage July 19 with Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio
Uncanny Terrain codirector Ed M. Koziarski will screen work-in-progress footage and talk about the film with my alma mater Antioch College‘s Global Seminar on Energy, Thursday, July 19 at 1 p.m. at the...
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Work-in-Progress Screenings, Kartemquin Films, New Projects, and More
Mizuho Sugeno The Asami family farms in Aizu in Western Fukushima. 2013 greetings from Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski of Homesick Blues Productions, the filmmakers behind the ongoing documentary...
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Work-in-Progress Screening in Brussels, Belgium
The artists collective Act for Japan will present work-in-progress footage from Uncanny Terrain at Fukushima 2 Years After, a screening and discussion March 9 and 10 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Fukushima Year Three: Renewal
As we mark the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, we present the new trailer for our in-progress documentary Uncanny Terrain, following the organic...
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Fukushima 2013
Seiji Sugeno at the Fukushima Organic Farmers' Network's café Orgando in Tokyo Asami Girls at Yamato Farmers Market The Asamis' kitten. No Rice No Life The Asamis at the Yamato Farmers Market Hiroshi...
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“Still ‘Praying for Japan’— ‘Uncanny Terrain’ explores impact of 3/11 on...
Ten Thousand Things From Kyoto: “This film is a must for all who are continuing to ‘pray for Japan’ — for all who support the safety of Japanese people and animals, the recovery of Tohoku, and the...
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Uncanny Terrain 2013 Photo Set 2
Yasukawa's kitten follows him everywhere Seeds of Hope Milo shows the 30,000 km he has bicycled on his "Holy Map of Japan" On a clear day you could see the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, 5 km...
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Junko and Ed on Chicago Public Radio’s World View
Uncanny Terrain directors Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski talk with Alison Cuddy on Chicago Public Radio’s World View.
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We return to Fukushima to cover farmer’s campaign for mayor
Akihiro Asami left his life as a city salaryman to raise his family on a self-sustaining organic farm in the mountains of Kitakata, on the western outskirts of Fukushima prefecture. When the Fukushima...
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Ten Thousand Things: Still Praying for Tohoku
Organic farmer and darkhorse mayoral candidate Asami Akihiro canvasses the mountain villages that ring Kitakata City. Ten Thousand Things from Kyoto writes: “Uncanny Terrain follows mayoral candidacy...
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Cinema Jam: “Uncanny Terrain: The Documentary About the Devastation of...
Marija Makeska interviews filmmakers Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski in Cinema Jam: Junko: “Just like most of the Japanese people, I was always afraid of radiation from our history of atomic bombs in...
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Previewing Three Episodes in the Blue Fish Japanese Environmental Film Festival
Three episodes of the documentary series Uncanny Terrain will screen in a sneak preview, Nov. 5 at 6:30 p.m. in the Blue Fish Japanese Environmental Documentary Film Festival at the Nightingale Cinema,...
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