High schooler directs new feature film “HANFORD” to be distributed on Amazon Prime

Sounds like it will be a interesting take on thing’s but also that maybe he should do a series on it if he is only going to do one hour movies.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."“Sometimes I work on it until 11 or midnight and it’s like it’s going to be pretty rough waking up tomorrow,” Augustin Dulauroy says, laughing softly.

The film centers on the history of Hanford and ongoing challenges at the radioactive cleanup site. Dulauroy said he learned a lot interviewing historians, a scientist and Hanford workers.

And he reluctantly took some film lessons from his mother, Virginie Dulauroy.

“It’s lessons learned, you know,” says Augustin Dulauroy. “At the end of the day, I made the decisions and sometimes they were wrong.”

His mother helped edit down the many hours of tape and taught him how to conduct an interview. His questions to experts navigate some pretty tricky territory on a highly controversial history.

The film depicts startling images of the bombs on Japan. It discusses the making of the material to construct those bombs, the company town of Richland and the ongoing complex cleanup of radioactive waste at the Hanford site.

And recounts the strange case of a man named Harold McCluskey.

Robert Franklin is a Washington State University assistant professor of history.

He says McCluskey was exposed to a lot of radioactive material in an accident at Hanford but somehow survived."...