NYWIFT Member Screening: Building Bombs

NYWIFT is proud to co-present the New York Premiere of the 4K restoration of Building Bombs (1990) at DCTV as part of the NYWIFT Member Screening Series!

NYWIFT Member Kirsten Larvick is the restoration producer.

The screening will be introduced by Academy Award–nominated actor and activist Jane Alexander. Panel discussion to follow. 

Please gather in the Firehouse lobby following the screening for a complimentary beverage courtesy of New York Women in Film & Television.

Date: Saturday, May 24, 2025
Time: 7 PM 
Location: DCTV Firehouse,  87 Lafayette St, NYC

NYWIFT members can use 20% discount code NYWIFT on tickets.

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Filmmakers Mark Mori and Susan Robinson with actor/activist Jane Alexander during narration recording for Building Bombs (1990) release.

About the Film

Join DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film for the highly anticipated New York premiere of the newly restored 4K iteration of Building Bombs (1990)—a documentary that remains as urgent today as when it first shook audiences over three decades ago.

This Academy Award-nominated documentary revisits the glory days of the atomic age, its legacy of nuclear weapons waste, and its troubling questions still unanswered. Insider stories and rare archival footage reveal the inner workings of one of the world’s largest nuclear bomb plants and its toll on the environment and human hearts.

With nuclear tensions again rising and disarmament treaties unraveling, Building Bombs offers a sobering, timely lens into the past—and a rallying cry for the future. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with special thanks to Joe Lindner.

This vital screening and discussion of the restoration of a film revisits our nuclear legacy while considering the current political climate. The event date, May 24, coincides with International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament and follows the recent UN Peacekeeping Ministerial, offering a moment for reflection, dialogue, and renewed action.

Film still: Ellenton community sign, Building Bombs (1990)

About the Creative Team

Jane Alexander (Narrator, Building Bombs) is an actress, advocate, and author who has appeared in more than 70 films and television productions, including Academy Award-nominated performances in The Great White Hope, All the President’s Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Testament. Her television credits include Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, Calamity Jane, Malice in Wonderland, Law and Order, The Blacklist, Modern Love, and Emmy Award-winning performances in Warm Springs and Playing for Time (preserved by the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of NYWIFT). She has performed in more than 100 plays, among them The Great White Hope, The Visit, The Sisters Rosensweig, and Grand Horizons. She has appeared on Broadway, London’s West End, and in regional theaters from Atlanta to Los Angeles, garnering eight Tony Award nominations and one Tony Award, an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Theatre World Award. She has also been inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. Jane received NYWIFT’s MUSE award in 1993. From 1993 to 1997, Alexander served as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, during which time she staunchly defended the agency’s mission, its budget, and its grantees against a fiscal onslaught and moral panic instigated by Congress. She continues her advocacy for arts funding and freedom of expression today.

Mark Marbella (Moderator) is an Emmy® nominated executive producer, principal partner, and founder of Marabella Productions, LLC.  For more than 25 years, he has developed, sold, funded, and produced more than 300 hours of documentary specials and non-fiction series for Discovery Warner Brothers, I.D., History, National Geographic, MSNBC, PBS, and HBO Max among others.  Mark is also a long-time active member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) having served as National Board Member, Vice Chairman of PGA East, and Chairman of its Non-Fiction / Documentary Committee.

Mark Mori (Director, Building Bombs) is an Academy award nominated documentary filmmaker, an Emmy Award winning television producer, past chair of the Non-Fiction and Documentary Committee, Producers Guild of America, East. and President of Single Spark Pictures, Inc. His new film, The Baristas vs The Billionaires will be released in Fall, 2025. Mark’s films have garnered international film festival awards, as well as theatrical, TV and digital distribution worldwide. Mori has produced, written and directed documentary and reality series and specials for HBO, Showtime, BBC, PBS, Frontline, Fox TV, MTV, Discovery, A&E, Bravo, MSNBC, National Geographic Channel, Investigation Discovery, Animal Planet, ARTE, ZDF and others. 

Susan J. Robinson (Director, Building Bombs) is an Academy Award nominated filmmaker, producer, and communication expert. She specializes in long- and short-form environmental and social issue documentaries, in traditional and digital media forms. Past projects include an interactive tour of Atlanta for the city’s Olympic bid at the Seoul games, the first hyperlinked version of the Playboy Interviews (IBM), and computational tabletop documentaries. She has produced, written, and directed programming for TBS/CNN, Discovery Health, and the US CDC, among others. She holds a doctorate in digital media from the Georgia Institute of Technology

Kirsten Larvick is an audiovisual preservationist dedicated to safeguarding historically significant and artist-driven films. As Managing Director of IndieCollect, she leads initiatives to archive, restore, and increase access to independent works. Since 2009, she has co-chaired the Women’s Film Preservation Fund, helping preserve films made by women. In 2014, she founded the Al Larvick Fund to conserve and share home movies, resulting in the digitization of over 30 collections. Her credits as restoration producer include Asylum (2003) Building Bombs (1990), and One Hand Don’t Clap (1989) among others.