False Alarm (2021)

• 61%
• 2021
• Nick Lyell
• Kalama Oka’aina Niheu
• Andrew Arakawa
• Matthew LoPresti

At 8:00am on a Saturday in January of 2018, everyone on the Hawaiian islands received a statewide alert warning of an immanent nuclear missile. With President Trump and Kim Jong-un in the middle of a dangerous escalation, many people prepared for their homes and families to be destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse. 38 minutes later, everyone received a second alert that it was an error. False Alarm follows the stories of seven different individuals' diverse reactions and reflections on those 38 minutes. 38 minutes which open a window into the hope of resistance and tragedy of acceptance of militarism, colonialism, and nuclear weapons.