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Since March, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) is touring North America with stops in the USA and Canada of films beyond Oppenheimer that provide witness and understanding of what happened to real people since the beginning of the nuclear age, the start of the Anthropocene, where human activity is the dominant influence on the environment, since Trinity, the first nuclear weapon test. The Native Community Action Council (NCAC) is hosting the final North America stop of IUFF at the Beverly Theater in downtown Las Vegas on April 30 & May 1, 2024. Eleven films are slated including DOWNWIND, NUKED and Demon Mineral. “The NCAC is hosting the film festival to create awareness of nuclear risks, hazards and threats we all unknowingly endure” said Ian Zabarte, NCAC Secretary. “We are all dowinders,” He added in reference to the film DOWNWIND documenting the radioactive fallout upon the Shoshone people, as well as other Americans. The NCAC conducts outreach and education to Native Americans and research into health consequences known to be plausible from exposure to radioactive fallout. In 2008, NCAC research led to contentions and legal standing in licensing of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.