Stuart Weinstock | 14 mins | USA

In 1939, the Manhattan Project began with an experiment and a meeting at Columbia University. Hungarian-born physicist, Leo Szilard, has advanced beyond the recent splitting of the atom — which was believed to have no practical application — and discovers the next step in physics that will make atomic energy and a bomb imminently possible. Szilard must convince his colleague, Enrico Fermi, and the Physics Dean, George Pegram, to keep their nuclear research secret and protect the world from a technology that could end all human life.

PREMIERE STATUS
USA Premiere

SCREENING SCHEDULE
7:00 PM     Friday, Oct 15, 2010
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Writer and Director | Stuart Weinstock
Producer | Shrihari Sathe
Cast |
Leo Szilard
Todd Faulkner
Enrico Fermi
Gabe Bettio
George Pegram
Terry Layman
Lewis Strauss
Jon Krupp
Walter Zinn
Ethan Baum

DIRECTOR’S BIO
Stuart Weinstock is a director, screenwriter, teacher, and a native New Yorker. As an undergrad at Columbia University, he wrote and directed a short comedy, “Likely Hero,” which screened at the 2005 Arlene’s Grocery Picture Show. While working toward his MFA at Columbia, his short film, “Swine, Liquor, & White Women” screened at festivals throughout the country, including Urbanworld in New York, the LA Shorts Festival, and the Mid-Atlantic Black Film Festival in Virginia, where it was a finalist in competition. Stuart won the 2007 Random House/Kirkus Reviews Book Video Award for his trailer for the book, “Love, Stargirl.” He is currently working on a feature screenplay that tells the rest of the Manhattan Project story.