Susan Robinson, right, with partner Judy Stribling in 1991. Robinson was nominated for an Oscar in 1991 for her documentary ‘Building Bombs.’ (File photo)
Atlanta lesbian Susan Robinson’s film “Building Bombs” was nominated in 1991 for an Academy Award in the Best Feature Documentary. Robinson co-produced the film with local filmmaker Mark Mori.
“Judy and I are going to parade ourselves into the awards arm-in-arm,” Robinson said of her partner, Judy Stribling.
Five years in the making, “Building Bombs” examined the conditions inside the Savannah River nuclear plant where plutonium and tritium for nuclear warheads were produced. Robinson, 29 at the time, served as co-producer, director and writer for the film.
A reception for Robinson was held Feb. 28 at The Otherside, a lesbian and gay bar, before she went to a New York screening of the film at Mariel Hemingway’s Symphony Café, hosted by the film’s narrator, Jane Alexander.
“Building Bombs” lost to “American Dream,” a documentary about the labor strike by employees at a Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minn., in 1986.
Southern Voice, March 14-27, 1991
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