Call for Entry and Support - INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL OF RIO DE JANEIRO 2012

Films about nuclear and radioactive risks wanted

Last May we organized the First International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro (Uranio em Movi[e]mento). The Festival is about any nuclear issue from Uranium mining to Atomic Bombs and nuclear Waste and it is about creating awareness. Independent information about the risks of the whole nuclear fuel chain is an important step for a nuclear free future. So we screened 38 films from all continents and we had an audience of about 1000 spectaculaters, many of them Students and Teachers. We screened films like "Into Eternity" about nuclear Waste storage who won the Uranium Film Festivals feature Award. "Uranium 238 / Uranio 238", a documentary about depleted uranium weapons won the short film Award.

Damacio A. Lopez, USA (Executive director of the International Depleted Uranium Study Team – IDUST) said about the Festival: "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."

Isabel Macdonald, Costa Rica (Producer and representative of the winning short film "Uranio 238"): "Our commitment along with the Uranium Film Festival, the film festival organizers in Brazil is to spread the information gathered in this festival, it is a rich source for all those seeking a world free of radioactive waste."

Luiz Eduardo Jorge (Film director of "Caesium 137 - The Death Shine" and Uranium Film Festival Award winner, Goiânia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás):“Congratulations for the dignified initiative to produce the First Film Festival about Nuclear Energy. With that event a new era of the Cinema starts and for sure it will encourage new film productions about that theme.”

The Festival was such a success that it received invitations from other Brazilian cities and other countries like Costa Rica, Germany, India, Namibia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania and USA. After Rio de Janeiro we already had Satellite Uranium Film Festivals in the Brazilian Capitals São Paulo, Salvador, Recife, Fortaleza, Natal and João Pessoa. November 2011 and January 2012 we will have now Satellite-Festivals in Porto and Lisbon in Portugal.

Actual we are now planning the 2nd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro next May/June 2012 when there will be also the huge UN Earth Summit (Rio plus 20) in Rio.

Filmmakers and Producers from all over the World are now invited to send their productions and a preview DVD untill January 31. 2012.

Marcia Gomes de Oliveira

Coordinator

Email: info@uraniumfilmfestival.org

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Entry Address:

Uranium Film Festival

Coordinator Marcia Gomes de Oliveira

Rua Monte Alegre 356 / 301

Rio de Janeiro / RJ

CEP 20240-190

Further Information about the First International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro

The Uranium Film Festival is a project of the NGO Yellow Archives. Yellow is the colour of Uranium and for that a symbol for the whole nuclear industry. Until today most of the documentaries about uranium and the nuclear risks are mainly in English, German or French - but not in Portuguese. So the second advantage of our Uranium Film Festival is to create the so called Yellow Archives and to subtitle international films into Portuguese and Portuguese productions into English. The Yellow Archives is the first-ever film library in Brazil and Latin America dedicated to films about the whole nuclear fuel chain and radioactivity. Believing that awareness is the first step in making positive changes to better our environment, the Yellow Archives hopes to increase public awareness globally and especially in Brazil and in other Portuguese speaking countries like Portugal or Angola and Mozambique. The DVDs will be used for non-profit, educational and research purposes. Schools, universities, environmental groups and other grass root movements will have access to the Yellow Archives.

The Yellow Archives also organized - as part of the Festival - an important and successful Exhibition about Brazils Caesium-137 accident.

"Maõs de Césio / Hands of Caesium", is a photo exhibition about the nuclear accident of Goiânia 1987 with the radioactive element Caesium-137, the worst radioactive accident of Latin America. Two scrap metal dealers found an old radiotherapy unit in an abandoned cancer hospital. The did not know that this machine was radioactive and contained highly dangerous Caesium-137, so they broke it into pieces and the deadly accident happened. Thousands of people got contaminated. About 80 people died until from the radioactive contamination, says the association of the caesium-137 victims.

The exhibition was shown in the Cultural Centre Laurinda Santos Lobo in Rio de Janeiro. It attracted more than 500 visitors - not counted the audience of the Film Festival. The exhibition was planned to be mobile, for that after Rio it can now travel to other cities. It as already shown in Salvador and will now go to Recife.

At the moment the exhibition is only in Portuguese, but the Idea is to have it also in English and to show it in other countries. 2012 it will be 25 Years after the Caesium-accident and until today many of the surviving victims are not compensated by the state and are in need of help.

Uranium Film Festival and Yellow Archives need your support!

To finance our important Independent Uranium Film Festival in Rio and the Satellite Uranium Film Festivals in other Cities and Countries we need financial support. We need partners and sponsors. Every concerned citizen and company is invited. It doesn’t need much. One Dollar from every nuclear concerned citizen of our planet would be enough!

Although countries like Germany, Switzerland or Belgium decided to phase out its nuclear energy sector, many other countries like Brazil, India or Jordan are now heavily investing in nuclear power and Uranium Mining. Destructive uranium mining und uranium prospecting is going on in dozens of countries worldwide. Even the Amazon rainforest is not safe from future uranium mining projects. Other radioactive dangers are coming form coal mining and even from oil drilling, which only a few people know. Also important to remember is the use of "nuclear waste" (Depleted Uranium) in weapons and the use of radioactive Caesium-137 and radioactive Cobalt-60 in medicine and for food irradiation.

Please support our Festival! Become our partner. info@uraniumfilmfestival.org

We organized our first International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro May 2011 mainly with the help of the Heinrich Boell Foundation Rio de Janeiro and the School for Film, Cinema and Event "Adolpho Bloch" of FAETEC. We have to thank the dozens of between 15 and 19 year old students of the School "Adolpho Bloch" who helped us during the festival. Though it was a tough time for us all, the Students did a great job and made the First International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro a big success.

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