8 Nominees selected for the Uranium Film Festival Awards 2012
The 2nd International Uranium Film Festival has nominated eight films representing eight countries for its Award, the Yellow Oscar, in three categories: Best Short, Best Feature and Best Animation. The Festival starts 6 days after the next Earth Summit (Rio plus 20) in the Cinema of the famous Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro called MAM. Between June 29th until July 13th, the Uranium Film Festival will screen over 50 films from all continents about Atomic Bombs, Nuclear Energy, Uranium Mining and radioactive dangers. The film festival will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, July 14th at the same location.
The International Uranium Film Festival wants to inform the global societies about the whole nuclear fuel chain, about the dangers of radioactivity, about the environmental and health risks of uranium exploration, mining, processing and about nuclear waste. It wants to stimulate the production of independent documentaries, movies and animated films about any nuclear issue. The Uranium Film Festiva is a global event with festivals in other cities and countries. Read more
The 2nd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro selected now 48 films about Atomic Bombs, Nuclear Energy, Uranium Mining and radioactive dangers. The unique film festival starts a few days after the Earth Summit in the Cinema of the famous Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro called MAM.
Festival programme
"The Telegraph" of India writes about Uranium Film Festival and Filmmaker Shriprakash. "Jadugoda - The Black Magic", a nine-minute documentary on the problems faced by miners of Jadugoda in East Singhbhum captured by Ranchi-based filmmaker Shriprakash, is set for a Brazil debut at the Uranium Film Festival scheduled in June.
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Brazil’s Chernobyl happened September 1987 in the city of Goiânia. Two scrap metal dealers found an old radiotherapy unit in an abandoned cancer hospital and opened it. Hundreds of people became victims of highly radioactive Cesium-137. The Yellow Archives produced a photo exhibition about it: “Hands of Cesium". Read more
The Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM) has a central role in the cultural history of Brazil, as one of the world’s main visual arts spaces for the exhibition of visual arts. However, its importance is not just attributed by the visual arts and to the exhibition halls.
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