ON THE MORNING YOU WAKE TO THE END OF THE WORLD
Genre
Documentary, Social, Drama and Political Thriller
Running time
60 minutes
Year
2022
Language
English, French and German
Subtitle
English
Country
France, United Kingdom and United States of America (USA)
Director
Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz, Arnaud Colinart
Bio
Producer
Arnaud Colinart, Jo-Jo Ellison, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison
Cast
Scriptwriter
Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz, Arnaud Colinart
On a regular Saturday morning in January 2018, as Hawaiian citizens went about their daily routines, the entire state population received an SMS from the Hawai’i Emergency Management Agency, which read: “Ballistic Missile Threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate Shelter. This is not a Drill”. As cellular communication networks collapsed and panic took hold of the population, 1.4m people (as well as their friends and relatives across the globe) came to understand the real, growing and urgent nature of today’s nuclear threat.
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