Using a story from the past to offer solutions for the conflicts of today, Resonance is an in-progress documentary film project that chronicles Japanese and American post-war reconciliation efforts through the stories of two sacred Buddhist temple bells that survived the scrap metal drives of WWII only to be taken by the US Navy as war trophies. One bell ended up in Duluth, Minnesota and another in Topeka, Kansas. In the decades following the war, the difficult process required to return these two bells reconnected two nations that had been torn apart by war. Resonance is being directed by local filmmaker Paul Creager and produced by Tallgrass Tales.

Watch the trailer at: http://www.resonancefilm.com/

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Watch the 10 minute excerpt shown at Solutions Volume 3 at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtsLeNY7czg

Recorded on August 30th, 2008 at Solutions Volume 3 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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