I attend a monthly documentary club in the Twin Cities, where directors screen their works-in-progress. When Kyle Whitney shared his footage of interviews with nuclear bomb survivors in Japan, my jaw dropped at these stories he captured.

I normally don’t edit documentaries, but since Kyle needed a hand, I thought it would be a good chance to give it a shot. I didn’t think at first about the challenge of editing a film entirely in Japanese! But after several sessions with our translator, Keiko Kawakami, we made something pretty special:

I hope Kyle will be able to raise funds to make it into a full-length documentary. I’ve only seen a small percentage of his footage, and I know he has many more powerful interviews from his trips to Japan.