ABOUT GOSS GROVE FILMS

GGF Founder and lead creative, Ari Beser, got his start as a storyteller in 2011 after graduating from University of Colorado, Boulder and embarking on a fateful journey to Japan. On August 6, 2015, Beser published the culmination of his journey into a book, The Nuclear Family. This non fiction historical narrative focuses on the American and Japanese perspectives of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the perspective of his grandfather Jacob Beser, the only man aboard both planes that dropped the bombs, and the survivors who asked Ari to tell their story. That same summer he began to adapt ‘The Nuclear Family’ into a documentary with the Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship.  He reported for National Geographic, on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima until President Obama’s Historic Hiroshima Visit. Beser’s storytelling has given voice to people directly affected by nuclear technology today. He completed his documentary short The Nuclear Family,Witness as a Masters Thesis at American University, It premiered at the Online Global Peace Film Festival, and was selected as a semi-finalist for the Academy of Film and Television Arts’ Student Academy Awards.

Beser went on to document nuclear ban treaty negotiations for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Beser has hosted Creative Mornings in at National Geographic Headquarters, given 3 TEDx Talks, including TEDxKyoto, and TEDxFulbright, and contributes photography and video to Getty Images. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Japan Times, and PRI’s The World.