Art and Awareness: The International Uranium Film festival was founded in 2011 in Santa Teresa, the famous artist quarter in the heart of Rio de Janeiro. The aim of the festival is to inform the public, from a neutral position, about nuclear power, uranium mining, nuclear weapons and the health effects of radioactivity. The horror of atomic bombs and those who suffered from them, and nuclear accidents like Chernobyl or Fukushima should never be forgotten - nor repeated. The correlation between nuclear energy and weapons must be openly discussed. The festival inspires discourse about the health and environmental risks of radioactive materials and waste. We seek to educate and activate the public on these issues. The dynamic media of film is an important tool to bring that information to a diverse international public.
Since its inception, the Uranium Film Festival has enhanced public awareness of new productions of independent documentaries and movies about the nuclear fuel chain and radioactive issues. The nuclear world has produced over 200,000 metric tons of high-level radioactive waste during the past sixty years. This waste will remain hazardous for 100,000 years - yet there are no viable solutions for its safe, permanent disposal. It is our responsibility to inform societies and future generations about the dangers of radioactivity. We believe that public education and open discussion of these dangers will lead to a more peaceful, healthy future. Filmmaking and the Uranium Film Festival are tools to inform future generations - and to promote a safe, sustainable future without nuclear risks.
After premiering in Rio de Janeiro, the Festival travels to other major cities in Brazil and other countries. In past years it has traveled to São Paulo, Recife, Salvador, Fortaleza and to Lisbon and Porto in Portugal, to Berlin in Germany, and to ten major cities in India including New Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. The legal organizer of the Uranium Film Festival is the non-profit arts and educational organization "Yellow Archives". This charitable organization is registered in Rio de Janeiro and officially recognized by the Brazilian Government. Important Partners of the festival are the Heinrich Boell Foundation Brazil, Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art MAM-Rio and the Technical State School for TV, Cinema, Tourism and Events - Adolpho Bloch of the Foundation for Education and Science FAETEC.
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"Congratulations! We are so pleased to see you growing and expanding the audiences for these films. Bravo! You are a force of nature!" Jeff Spitz, Film Director, USA, www.groundswellfilms.org
"What a wonderful initiative, the Uranium Film Festival. Extremely important to show these messages. I read there will also be one film highlighting issues in South Africa. In any case, it would be good if the film festival could come to Tanzania and other African countries, maybe as a traveling festival? We don't manage any grants ourselves, but there are probably grant makers interested in such an initiative?" Arend de Haas, Director, African Conservation Foundation
"The news about Yellow Oscars was forwarded to us through friends of international antinuclear activist. It would be wonderful if I can show those films in Taiwan." Gloria Kuang-Jung Hsu,Taiwan Environmental Protection Union, Taipei |
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"Most of all, thank you both for making the film festival happen. Ending the nuclear energy/weapon nexus the most important envrionmental planetary issue we face. With my very best regards, and hope to meet you both in the future." Eve-Andree Laramee, artist and film director, USA
"This looks like a brilliant festival. We at the War Matters team have been absolutely astonished at the lack of news coverage regarding depleted uranium munitions, so the reality of their usage in Iraq and Afghanistan forms one important aspect of our documentary. We will explore this festival further." War Matters
"I will write a piece about your Uranium Film Festival. It is a very important film festival. Have absolutely no doubts about this! Thank you again for all your work." June Rosemary Birch, United Kingdom |
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"The days of the festival were a nice and interesting experience which I keep in my mind with pleasure. Don t forget that in Italy existed for several years a parliamentary commission on the effect of uranium over the Italian soldiers. There are also at least two different organizations of veteran afflicted by uranium related sickness. Let' us keep working together." Maurizio Torrealta, film director, RAINEWS 24, Italy
"There are many concerned people in Russia, who are interested in your film festival. We'd like to offer our help in translation of your site into Russian." Sergei Frishman, Siberian Ecological Agency, Russia, Toms, http://green.tomsk.ru/
"Parabéns a todos pelo sucesso e pela qualidade do Uranium Film Festival. Que esta iniciativa cresca e que logo a humanidade alcance a sabedoria de não utilizar a tecnologia nuclear." Walter Behr, Co-Diretor do filme "Pedra Podre", Analista Ambiental / ICMBio, Brasil |
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"Dear Norbert and Marcia, thank you for bringing us all together and putting on this very special event and for all your passion and enthusiasm." Katherine Aigner, film director, Australia
"Thanks so much Norbert. I congratulate you on the immense effort of pulling these events together and will continue to encourage people to submit work and follow the event online if they cannot attend. Warm regards and solidarity from Australia." Nat Wesley, filmmaker and activist, Australia
"Desejo à vocês muito sucesso nas viagens do Festival e que nós nos encontremos para uma segunda edição sobre esse evento que merece nosso apoio." Quiá Rodrigues, Film director, TV Program Animania, TV Brasil |
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"Keep up the good work.. It is very exciting to see that the festival is continuing in Berlin! I wish I could attend, and am sure that someday we will be on the same continent and will finally meet!" Daniel Hayduk, Film director, Canada
"Congrats on your great work! Happy to have Deadly Deception included - all the best." Debra Chasnoff, President and Senior Producer, GROUNDSPARK
"I saw the programme for the Uranium Film Festival taking place in Rio de Janeiro and it looks excellent. Thank you and in solidarity." Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center |
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"I left after the Hiroshima piece today. Both films were really moving and I am so honored to be a part of the festival. What you're doing is so relevant and important right now. Thanks again for including me in this amazing festival." Yoko Isabelle Kumano, Artist and Film director, USA/Japan
"I live in Portland Oregon and work with a group of activists under our organizations name nonukesnw.org. We would love to show some of these films if possible in Oregon and Washington. Is this possible? We are currently working to clean up Hanford Nuclear Reservation as well as shut down the Columbia Generating Station. Being able to showcase these movies would bring this issue to light here." Reid Jackson, www.NoNukesNw.org |
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"What an impressive event you have put together!" Isabel Macdonald, Producer of the Award winning documentary "Uranium 238" and Anti-DU-Activist, in Washington and Costa Rica.
"Congratulations on such good exposure of the Festival! Your work and enthusiasm deserve high appreciation!" Galina Sanderson, film director, Ucraine / New Zealand
"I would love to be in Berlin. I am always thrilled when Pip's films are screened, his memory lives on. So thank you also for the providing the opportunity for others to see his images and hear the message he was so passionate about." Helen Hill, Australia |
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"In my 25 years as an anti-DU activist this experience (Uranium Film Festival) has been a highlight in the exposure of a very serious problem that faces mankind today: The use of radioactive waste as a military weapon." Damacio A. Lopez, USA (Executive director of the International Depleted Uranium Study Team – IDUST)
"We wish you another great festival that creates awareness and action." Nalaka Gunawardene, TVE Asia Pacific
"Happy to hear that that the Uranium Film Festival is spreading its wings and message in two more cities, in other parts of the globe! And very happy to have my film be a part of that collection." Angela How, Filmmaker, USA/Singapur |
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"Muito obrigado por existirem com esta força da dignidade humana traduzida na produção do Festival de Cinema mais importante do mundo na atualidade", Luiz Eduardo Jorge, cineasta, diretor de 18 filmes, Brasil.
"I have spread the word about your festival here in Finland in Posiva by publishing first the Uranium Film Festival nominees and now the winning movies in our Internet. All the best for developing the Yellow Archives. Hope you will have very good films in the future and a nice 3rd Uranium Film Festival next year! Sunny greetings from Finland, Posiva and ONKALO." Helena Urpulahti, Tiedottaja, Posiva Oy, Eurajoki
"It's good to know that you are doing all this great work. What would take for you and me to arrange for a uranium film festival in Malawi which is now home to 12 potential uranium mines. Greetings from the land of many smilesJ", Reinford Mwangonde, Director of Citizens for Justice, Malawi. |
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Marko Kattilakoski Award Statement from Sweden http://www.uraniofestival.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/75-en/videos/298-marko-kattilakoski
Bill Keisling Award Statement from USA http://www.uraniofestival.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/73-en/frontpage-en/296-bill-keisling-about-the-festival
Rainer Ludwigs Award Statement from Germany http://www.uraniofestival.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/75-en/videos/299-rainer-ludwigs |
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