The first New York Peace Film Festival, opening in August and featuring a guest appearance by an atomic-bomb survivor, will revisit the world's only nuclear attacks.
The festival will include five films, poetry and music and dance performances.
Its executive producer, Yumi Tanaka, was inspired two years ago by an exhibition of black-and-white photographs at the United Nations marking the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and a life-changing talk with hibakusha Michimasa Hirata.
A survivor of Hiroshima, Hirata is now a peace advocate. His chance encounter with Tanaka, who is also an actress and standup comedian, had a profound effect on her.