Press Release: 2nd International Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro 2012

From Einstein to Fukushima - Latin American and World Premieres at Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, 31 March, 2012 — From Einstein to Fukushima, from the first Atomic Bomb tests to the nuclear accident of Fukushima. The 2nd International Uranium Film Festival has now selected 40 documentaries, movies and animated shorts about nuclear issues that will screen at the cinema of the famous Modern Art Museum (MAM) of Rio de Janeiro 28 June to 14 July.
The Uranium Film Festival is the most important showcase of "nuclear" filmmakers from all continents that sometimes risk their lives to produce their films. "We are proud that most of the selected films are Latin American Premiers and some are World Premiers", says Uranium Film Festival director Norbert G. Suchanek.

A World Premier for example is "Once upon a Time in the Atomic City" by filmmaker Riccardo Migliore. It is a short documentary about a small semi-arid Brazilian town with a high rate of cancer and rumours about uranium exploration that had going on there fifty years ago. Another World Premier is the documentary "FOOD AND RADIATION" by Yoko Kumano. The Film addresses the issue of radiation in food after the Fukushima reactor disaster.

Soon the festival jury will also announce the winners of the feature and short film competitions who will receive the Uranium Film Festival Award, the "Yellow Oscar".


More information / contact:


Marcia Gomes de Oliveira, Email:  info@uraniumfilmfestival.org



www.uraniumfilmfestival.org

Phone (0055) 21 - 2507 6704





Latin American Premieres:


The Red Button

Poland/USA, 2011, 52 min, Director/Direção Ewa Pieta, Miroslaw Grubek, Production/Produção: Miroslaw Grubek, Slawomir Grunberg


Atomic Bombs on The Planet Earth

The Netherlands & United Kingdom, 2011, 12 min, Director/Direção: Peter Greenaway, Production/Produção: Change Performing Arts of Milan.


Radioactive Wolves

Austria, 2011, 52 min, Director/Direção: Klaus Feichtenberger, Production/Produção: ORF



The Third Nuclear Bomb, The Veteran´s Accusation

Italy, 2008, 26 min, Director/Direção: Maurizio Torrealta, Production/Produção: Rainews24 / Radio Televisione Italiana



Quirra is a radioactive dump

Italy / Italia, 2011, 21 min, Director/Direção: Falviano Masella, Produção / Producer: Rainews24

Leonids Story

Germany / Ukraine, 2011, 19 min, Director/Direação: Rainer Ludwigs, Produção/Producer: Tetyana Chernyavska





Sacred Poison

USA, 2011, 30 min, Director/Direção: Yvonne Latty



Uranium - is it a country? Tracking the origins of nuclear power

Germany/Australia 2008, 53 min, Direção/Director: Kerstin Schnatz, Isabel Huber, Stephanie Auth.


Not for Public Release: a Nuclear Incident in Lock Haven

USA, 2010, 73 min, Director / Direção: Bill Keisling


Buried in Earthskin

South Africa, 2009, 50 min, Director / Direção Helena Kingwill

Blowin'in the Wind

Australia, 2005, 62 min, Director / Direção: David Bradbury, Production / Produção: Frontline Film Foundation


Indian Point – Nowhere to Run

USA, 2003, 29 min, Director/Direção: Tobe Carey




Jadugoda the black magic

India, 2009, 9 min, Director/Direção: Shriprakash





Chernobyl: The invisible thief

Germany, 2006, 59 min, Director/Direção: Christoph Boekel, Production/Produção: ARTE - WDR

Uranium: a poisoned legacy

France, 2009, 52 min, Director/Direção: Dominique Hennequin, Produção: Nomades TV, Charlotte Hennequin

The Secret and the Sacred. Two Worlds at Los Alamos.

Germany, 2003, 45 min, Direção: Claus Biegert, Produção: Denkmal-Film / Hessischer Rundfunk / arte

Rokkasho Rhapsody

Japan, 2006, 102 min, Director / Direção: Hitomi Kamanaka

Radioactivists: Protest in Japan since Fukushima

Germany, 2011, 72 min, Director/Direção: Julia Leser, Clarissa Seidel


Dangerous Drinkwater

Germany, 2010, 45 min, Director/Direção: Dethlev Cordts, Production/Produção: Dethlev Cordts for NDR German TV

Australian Atomic Confessions

Australia, 2005, 49 min, Director/Direção: Katherine Aigner

After the Day After

USA/EUA, 2011, 6 min, animation, Director/Direção: Nathan Meltz

Coffee Break

Sweden / Suécia, 2011, 14 min 30, Director/Direção: Marko Kattilakoski

Toxic Neglect

India, 2011, 9 min, Director/Direção: Moushumi Basu

One Day

Brasil, 2011, 16 min, Director/Direção: Alex Miranda, Produção / Production: Trator Filmes








World Premieres


FOOD AND RADIATION

USA, 2012, 18 min, Director/Direção: Yoko Kumano


08:15 de 1945

Brazil, 2012, 106 min, Director, Direção: Roberto Fernandez, Produção: O Movimento Falso Filmes



Once upon a Time in the Atomic City

Brasil/Italia, 2011, 13 min, Director/Direção: Riccardo Migliore



Uranium Decay

USA, 2011, 6 min 30, Director/Direção: Eve-Andree Laramee


Maralinga Pieces

Australia, 2012, 13 min, Director/Direção: Jessie Boylan



See complete film list on our website: www.uraniumfilmfestival.org

Contact


Marcia Gomes de Oliveira



Email:  info@uraniumfilmfestival.org


www.uraniumfilmfestival.org

Phone (0055) 21 - 2507 6704

Uranium Film Festival
Rua Monte Alegre 356 / 301
Rio de Janeiro / RJ
CEP 20240-190
Brasil

INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL - from June 28th to July 14th, 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Museum of Modern Art (MAM)