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Anti nuclear film might just change the world

Cannes blog: Documentaries determined to change the world, SBS Films, 17 May 2010 By Lisa Nesselson in Cannes The world’s documentary makers provide some much-needed perspective to the madness of Cannes. “….Countdown to Zero , Lucy Walker’s spooky analysis of why all extant nuclear weapons must be eliminated –……….. On Sunday, former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson — played by Naomi Watts in Doug Liman’s yet-to-unspool fact-based thriller Fair Game — joined such luminaries as Jordan’s Queen Noor at an informative and faintly eerie Countdown to Zero press conference…………….These are galvanising works which, with luck, will register at least as strongly as did An Inconvenient Truth.  You’re free to question the looming danger from global warming as laid out by Al Gore, but it’s difficult to poke holes in the notion that a nuclear device exploding in a major city would be truly apocalyptic. (Panelist Gro Bruntland, the Norweigian doctor, politician and environmental activist behind the notion of sustainable development, said that An Inconvenient Truth was certainly the deciding factor when the folks in Oslo decided to award Gore the Nobel Peace Prize. Who says movies don’t matter?)

SBS Films – Cannes blog: Documentaries determined to change the world

May 18, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, plutonium