TINTON FALLS — The Seabrook continuing care retirement community will host a film screening of “The Babushkas of Chernobyl,” followed by a Q-and-A session with director and producer Holly Morris, at 7 p.m. Aug. 5 at Town Square Auditorium, 3000 Essex St.
Morris wanted to share the documentary with the Seabrook community because her uncle is a resident on campus.
The documentary is about three unlikely heroines in the most toxic place on earth. About three decades after the Chernobyl disaster, some 100 women fiercely cling to their ancestral homeland inside the radioactive “Exclusion Zone.” While most of their neighbors have long since fled and their husbands have gradually died off, this stubborn sisterhood is hanging on, even thriving while trying to cultivate an existence in a toxic environment.
Morris is a writer, director and producer whose work often explores the lives of risk-taking, contemporary women around the globe. Her other documentaries about unlikely icons include “Behind Closed Chad-ors,” “Holy Cow,” “Mana Wahines” and “Paradox Found.”
The event is free and open to the public, and seating is first-come, first-served. For more information, call Michelle Aguilar at 732-643-2094.