The International Uranium Film Festival was founded in 2010 in

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, and has traveled to Germany, Portugal, India and the United States. This educational event merges

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ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...

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and

environmental justice Environmental justice is a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms from hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses.Schlosberg, David. (2007) ''Defining Environmental Justic ...

, to inform the public about

uranium mining Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. Over 50 thousand tons of uranium were produced in 2019. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia were the top three uranium producers, respectively, and together account f ...

and milling,

nuclear power Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced ...

issues,

nuclear weapon A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions ( thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bom ...

s and the

nuclear fuel cycle The nuclear fuel cycle, also called nuclear fuel chain, is the progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in the ''front end'', which are the preparation of the fuel, steps in the ''service period'' in w ...

from "cradle to grave" life-cycle assessment - and the effects of radioactivity on humans and other species. The festival founders and principal organizers are Norbert Suchanek and Marcia Gomes de Oliveira. The legal organizer of the International Uranium Film Festival is the arts and education

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"Yellow Archives". The organizers and the festival participants seek to educate and activate the international public on these issues through the dynamic media of film and video.

Film themes

The films shown typically have content that critiques and analyzes uranium mining, milling, and use, and the effects there of on land, water and human health. A key objective of the festival is to inform cultures and future generations about the effects of radioactivity and radioactive materials. Public education and open discussion of these matters may lead to a more peaceful, healthy future, and hold promise to promote a safe, sustainable future without nuclear risks. The

Atomic Age The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is the period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, The Gadget at the ''Trinity'' test in New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, during World War II. Although nuclear chain reaction ...

nuclear world has produced millions of metric tons of high-level, low-level and intermediate-level

radioactive waste Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons r ...

during the past sixty years. This waste will remain hazardous for over 100,000 years. Other themes explore atomic legacy issues, including the research, development, testing and use of nuclear weapons. Many of these events affected specific populations including the Marshall Islanders, Native American cultures in the U.S. Southwest and Northwest, First Nations in Western Canada, among others.

Films on nuclear issues

* Abita. Children from Fukushima, Directors: Shoko Hara and Paul Brenner, Germany, 2012, 4 min, English subtitles, animation * Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth, Director:

Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway, (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his films are th ...

, UK/The Netherlands, 2011, 13 minutes * Atomic Footprints, Director: Pip Starr, Australia, 2007, 14 min, English * Atomic Ivan, Director: Vasily Barkhatov, Russia, 2012, 91 min, English subtitles * Buddha Weaps in Jadugoda, Director:

Shriprakash Prakash Shriprakash (born 23 December 1966) is an Indian activist and independent documentary filmmaker. Biography Shriprakash was born in December 1966 from a family of farmers in the state of Bihar, in an area that in 2000 became a separate state ca ...

, India, 1999, 55 min * Cesium in my Blood, Director:

Lars Westman Lars Westman (born 27 September 1938 in Östersund) is a Sweden, Swedish film maker and cartoonist. Life and work He studied art (Kursverksamheten) at Stockholm University in 1963, art and advertising at Beckmans Reklamskola, Stockholm, in 1964, ...

, Sweden/Brazil, 2009, 70 min * Children of Uranium, Director: Adina Popescu, Romania, 2009, 64 min, English subtitles * Enola, Director: Christoph Boekel, Germany, 1986, 28 min, English subtitles * Forbidden Ground Fukushima, Director: Kazunori Kurimoto, Japan, 2012, 57 min * Hibakusha, Director: Steve Nguyen & Choz Belen, USA, 2012, 54 min, English, with animation * High Power, Director: Pradeep Indulkar, India, 2013, 27 min, English subtitles * Hiroshima Nagasaki Download, Director: Shinpei Takeda, Mexico/Japan, 2010, 73 min, Japanese/English * Iraq: Fallujah's Sacrificed Children, Director: Feurat Alani, France 2011, 48 min, French * Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1, Director: Adam Jonas Horowitz, USA, 2012, 87 min * Nuclear Waste, Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine, 2012, 25 min, English subtitles * Slouching Towards Yucca Mountain, Director: Eve Andree Laramee, USA, 2011, 17 min, English subtitles * The Atomic States of America, Directors:

Don Argott Don Argott (born September 14, 1972) is an American documentary filmmaker and musician. He has directed several documentary films and has also worked as a producer and cinematographer. He co-owns the production company 9.14 Pictures with pro ...

& Sheena M. Joyce, USA, 2011, 92 min, English * The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?, Director: Christopher McLeod, USA, 1983, 58 min, English * The Return of the Navajo Boy Epilogue, Director: Jeff Spitz, USA, 2008, 15 min * The Ultimate Wish: Ending the Nuclear Age, Director: Robert Richter, USA, 2012,40 min, English subtitles * U 4 Uranium?, Director: Shanny Haziza, Israel, 2012, 54 min, English subtitles * Under Control, Director: Volker Sattel, Germany, 2011, 98 min, English subtitles * Uranium - To Die For, Director: Shanny Haziza, Israel, 2012, 54 min, English subtitles

Organizers

The legal organizer of the International Uranium Film Festival is the arts and education

"Yellow Archives". This

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is registered in

and officially recognized by the Brazilian Government. 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.

References

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Uranium Uranium is a chemical element with the symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium is weak ...

Environmental art Environmental film festivals Anti-nuclear movement Uranium mining

Film themes

Films on nuclear issues

Organizers

See also

References