EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winning actor and producer Forest Whitaker has joined Rachid Bouchareb’s Boomerang Atomic as an executive producer ahead of its screening at DOC NYC in November.
The documentary revisits France’s first atomic bomb detonation on February 13, 1960 close to the remote town of Reggane in the heart of the Sahara Desert in Algeria, at a time when the country was still under French colonial rule.
French Algerian director Bouchareb, whose 2006 drama Days of Glory was Oscar-nominated, examines the devastating consequences that continue to affect local populations and the environment more than six decades later.
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