Subject: Invite: Screening of Countdown to Zero with Jeff Skoll, Lawrence Bender and Megan Smith - Tuesday, March 23
From: "Megan Smith" <[email-masked]>
To: "Megan Smith" <[email-masked]>, "Natasha Mascarenhas" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:36:56 -0700

*Filmmakers@Google, Jeff Skoll, Lawrence Bender and Megan Smith invite you
to a special screening of the documentary, "Countdown to
Zero<http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/countdowntozero_sundance2010>,"
followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.

What:  Screening of "Countdown to Zero."* *
Light hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be served prior to screening.
A short Q&A with Jeff Skoll and Lawrence Bender hosted by Megan Smith will
follow the screening.*

*When*: Tuesday, 3/23, at 5:30-8:00 p.m.
(Reception 5:30. Screening 6:00. Q&A 7:30.)

*Where*: Tunis, Building 43-2

"Countdown to Zero" is a stunning documentary about the escalating global
nuclear arms crisis that recently premiered at Sundance Film Festival and
was shown at the TED Conference. Produced by Academy Award winner Lawrence
Bender (*An Inconvenient Truth, Inglorious Basterds*) and written and
directed by Lucy Walker (*Devil’s Playground, Blindsight*), "Countdown to
Zero" features an array of experts and statesmen/women and makes a case for
worldwide nuclear disarmament.

As the film projects a startling vision, interviews with Jimmy Carter,
Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, and Pervez Musharraf yield a unified message:
our only option is to eradicate every last nuclear missile. Luckily for us,
getting to zero is possible—step by step. Let’s jump start the change.

*About Lawrence Bender*
Lawrence Bender's films have received nineteen Academy Award nominations,
including two for Best Picture.  He has produced successful and well-known
movies such as: "Good Will Hunting,” "Pulp Fiction," the Academy
Award-winning “An Inconvenient Truth,” and, most recently “Inglourious
Basterds.”  In the making of “Countdown to Zero,” Lawrence says, “We needed
to get to the people who had the power to push the button.” His metaphorical
Rolodex was deployed to recruit spokespersons on the subject of nuclear arms
and proliferation. Bender and the team locked in interviews with former
heads of state Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, F. W. de Klerk of South Africa
(a country that has totally eliminated its nuclear arsenal), Pakistan's
Pervez Musharraf and former President Jimmy Carter.

*About Jeff Skoll*
Jeff Skoll is an executive producer of “Countdown to Zero” and founder of
Participant Media, which is the unique independent production company that
had partnered with Bender and Al Gore on *An Inconvenient Truth*. Founded
five years ago by Jeff Skoll, Participant Media makes films that aim to
affect change for the good of the world and the benefit of humanity, films
that are both commercially and critically successful.  Prior to founding
Participant Media, Jeff was the first President of eBay and pioneered the
development of the eBay Foundation.

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