Help to complete 'The Half-Life of Memory' - a documentary film about Rocky Flats

We need your help to finish "Half-Life of Memory" - a documentary film about the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. All donations will be put towards post-production and marketing costs. With your help, this important film will be released this coming year - 2021.

Brief Synopsis:

HALF-LIFE OF MEMORY exposes the incredible true story of Rocky Flats - a top-secret nuclear bomb factory near Denver, Colorado. News of radioactive accidents, a social uprising, and an extraordinary FBI raid led to the closure of the plant, but its long-lived radioactivity continues to threaten the citizens of Colorado.

Colorado citizens weren't aware that they lived downwind of a nuclear bomb factory until a major plutonium fire sent a plume of radioactive smoke across the Denver Metro Area. After the fire, previously undisclosed accidents and routine releases of radioactive material were exposed. News of these events fueled large scale protests and helped ignite an international anti-nuclear movement.

Rocky Flats and the surrounding area were found to be contaminated with some of the highest levels of radioactive plutonium contamination in the world. An unprecedented FBI and EPA raid forever halted nuclear production at Rocky Flats, in 1989. The bomb plant was eventually shut down and a questionable 10-year, billion-dollar, cleanup concluded in 2005.

Today there is no visible trace of the former plant. The Denver metro area is growing ever closer to the site and a large portion of Rocky Flats has been rechristened as a national wildlife refuge. State and federal officials tout the area's safety but many citizens, including former workers, a former FBI agent, and a county health chief, disagree.

Thousands of former Rocky Flats workers have fallen ill from radiation contamination and community members are currently working to uncover a link to illness in the surrounding neighborhoods. The long-term consequences of Rocky Flats on the Denver area are unknown, and decades of negligence and cover-ups by state and federal officials have left citizens questioning their safety.

Crew:

Producer/Director/Videographer -
Jeff Gipe is a visual artist who grew up just a few miles from the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, where his father worked for many years. Gipe has been heavily engaged with Rocky Flats matters over the past decade, and has been exploring a multitude of ways to express this complex and politicized issue through the arts. In 2015, Gipe installed a memorial dedicated to Rocky Flats known as the Cold War Horse.

See Jeff's artwork at www.jeffgipe.com

Video Editor -
Dan de Jesus is a professional videographer and editor with experience in corporate, short films, indie, and documentary work. Dan's recent projects include, Life In The Balance, a forthcoming documentary, and Ode to NYC, a music video for IRISHLATINA.

View Dan's video work at: www.dandjlab.com

Original Music -
Jonah Rosenberg is a Brooklyn, NY based pianist, composer and sound designer striving to construct intuitive music. He has performed throughout the US and Canada and performs regularly in New York City

Listen to Jonah's music at: http://jonahrosenberg.com/about-jonah/

Interviews by Mallory O'Connell and Brittany Gutermuth

Visit the Half-Life of Memory website at: http://thehalflifeofmemory.org