THE FILMMAKERS
About the Film Team
OLIVER STONE (DIRECTOR / CO-WRITER)
A fixture within the industry for almost 40 years, Oliver Stone is a director, screenwriter, producer and best-selling author. Stone won his first Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978) and won his second and third as Best Director for Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989) respectively. Other notable projects include Wall Street (1987), JFK (1991), Nixon (1995), W. (2008), Savages (2012) and 2016′s Snowden, along with the screenplay for Brian De Palma’s 1983 film Scarface which went on to become one of the most iconic films in history.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
“Climate change has brutally forced us to take a new look at the ways in which we generate energy as a global community. Long regarded as dangerous in popular culture, nuclear power is in fact hundreds of times safer than fossil fuels and accidents are extremely rare.
So, how can we lift billions of people from poverty while rapidly cutting greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane — and, in many countries, coal? One clear solution is the inclusion of nuclear in the green energy mix, as engineers have been commercializing new, smaller nuclear reactor designs that can be mass-manufactured at low cost.
We must switch over — and fast.
This is, in my mind, the greatest story of our time — discussing humanity’s arc from poverty to prosperity and its mastery of science to overcome the modern demand for more and more energy.”
- Oliver Stone, April 2023
JOSHUA S. GOLDSTEIN (CO-WRITER)
Professor Joshua S. Goldstein is an award-winning scholar of international relations who has written and spoken widely on war and society, including war's effects on gender, economics, and psychological trauma, and on peace and diplomacy. His book War and Gender won the International Studies Association's "Book of the Decade" award. Goldstein is coauthor (with Jon C. Pevehouse) of the widely used textbook International Relations. His new book, A Bright Future (with Staffan Qvist) is on international responses to climate change, especially Sweden's success in rapid decarbonization using nuclear power.
Goldstein's book Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide (2011) was the Conflict Research Society's "Book of the Year" in 2013. Goldstein's book The Wounds Within (2015), coauthored with a psychotherapist, explores veterans and PTSD. Prior books include The Real Price of War (2004), Three-Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics (1990; with John R. Freeman) and Long Cycles: Prosperity and War in the Modern Age (1988).
Goldstein has published articles in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, American Political Science Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and International Studies Quarterly, among others, and Op Ed pieces in The New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere. Goldstein has won a MacArthur Foundation Individual Research and Writing Grant, the International Studies Association's Karl Deutsch Award for research, and the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award, among others, and is listed in Who's Who in America.
Areas of expertise: international relations; war; conflict; peace; world order; great-power relations; peacekeeping; United Nations; world energy; climate change; international political economy; gender and war.
FERNANDO SULICHIN (PRODUCER)
Fernando Sulichin is a producer, filmmaker and philanthropist. Whilst studying in California, Fernando became interested in the film industry and the power of films to influence culture. His film career started in 1992, when Spike Lee made Sulichin Associate Producer on his film, Malcolm X. During this production, he brokered a deal for the film crew to shoot in Mecca - an unprecedented event - and persuaded Nelson Mandela to play a cameo in the film. Fernando has worked with Hollywood directors including Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, Marlon Brando, and David Lynch, producing over 25 films and documentaries to date. He is the founder of two production companies that have produced numerous award-winning films, including Love Liza (2003), a Sundance Prize Winner, and Mary (2004), the Venice Film Festival winner. Recent collaborations include Flag Day with Sean Penn and Nuclear Now with Oliver Stone. In collaboration with one of his production companies, Central Films, he produced Abel Ferrara’s Mary (winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival) and Babel (the 2006 Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d'Or Winner for Best Director, the Golden Globe Winner for Best Motion Picture and Nominee of seven Academy Awards). He is also known for producing high-standard documentaries featuring world leaders and renowned public figures, including Vladimir Putin and Fidel Castro, who are not accessible to other filmmakers. His focus is on meaningful stories and he is driven by the curiosity to draw his own conclusions about public figures. Fernando’s passion for film motivated his work with Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation, an organization that works to preserve films for future generations and saw him become a key supporter of the industry. Outside the world of film, Fernando is committed to many philanthropic endeavors. He is an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, a Patron of Fashion for Relief, and a Trustee of Faith Matters. He currently serves as Board Member of CORE (formerly J/P Haitian Relief Organization) - which was initially established to deliver humanitarian relief during the Haitian disaster in January 2010 and in January 2020 - and was presented with The Garry Shandling Humanitarian Award by the charity. In 2015, Sulichin was awarded the Legion of Honor for his work on a campaign to increase awareness about greenhouse gas emissions and global warming war.
ROB WILSON (PRODUCER)
Rob Wilson fell in love with documentary filmmaking while working on Oliver Stone's 2003 portrait of Fidel Castro, Comandante. Soon after, he produced documentaries on iconic directors John Ford and Howard Hawks for Paramount, and for Disney on the planning and construction of Disneyland. In 2012, Rob produced Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, a ten-part documentary series for Showtime. He also produced actor/filmmaker Richard Beymer’s documentary It’s a Beautiful World (2014), about their journey to India with filmmaker David Lynch while producing Lynch’s documentary Maharishi. In 2016, Rob served as co-producer and second unit director on Stone’s film Snowden. He produced The Putin Interviews (2017) and, with director Kurt Mattila, Stuntman (2020) which was executive produced by Dwayne Johnson and won the Audience Award at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival. Most recently, he produced Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.