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1. Press Release – Uranium Film Festival

   　

   Rio de Janeiro will have its second International Uranium Film Festival in June

   The next “Yellow Oscar” is a solar powered Tram

   　

   The “Yellow Oscar” of the 2nd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2012 is a tram powered by Solar Energy. It is a homage to the Bonde of artist quarter Santa Teresa in the centre of Rio de Janeiro.

   Next June, exactly from June 28th until July 14th, will happen the second International Uranium Film Festival in the famous Museum of Modern Art Cinema of Rio de Janeiro. The Uranium Film Festival (in Portuguese Urânio em Movi[e]mento) is dedicated to independent documentaries and movies about the whole nuclear fuel chain – from uranium mining to nuclear power plants, nuclear waste, atomic bombs and depleted uranium weapons.

   Until February the Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro received more than 70 film entries from all over the world. The festival team and international jury are now selecting about 40 documentaries and movies for that event.

   Last year “Into Eternity” by Director Michael Madsen from Denmark won the feature award of the 1st Uranium Film Festival. An impressive film, which deals with the philosophical questions of the issues concerning the permanent storage of high-level nuclear waste. The best short film was a Costa Rican production of director Pablo Ortega of the University of Costa Rica: Uranio 238: La Bomba Sucia del Pentágono, Uranium 238: The Pentagon’s Dirty Pool. The short film shows the horrible effects and consequences of depleted uranium ammunition used in the Balkans and in the Golf Wars. The audience award for the best short film were given to: “Césio 137. O brilho da morte”, directed by Luiz Eduardo Jorge of Brazil. His documentary shows the events that transpired in a real live tragedy about the release of Caesium-137 into a populated area 1987 in the city of Goiânia, Brazil. This was the worst radioactive accident in Latin America, which cost the lives of many people and the health of hundreds or possibly thousands of survivors.

   Last year the “Yellow Oscar” was an aquarelle made by the Artist Rubens Maia of Santa Teresa. This year the “Yellow Oscar” will be a model of the Bonde made from recycled and re-used materials by artist Getúlio Damado from Santa Teresa. It is a homage to the last tram of Brazil that was put out of service last year because of an accident based on the lack of maintenance. The local population of Santa Teresa hopes to get the Bonde back as soon as possible. Nevertheless the Yellow Oscar is a bit different from the real tram, which was powered lastly with nuclear energy. The model of Artist Getúlio is a Bonde powered by solar energy, which could or should be the future.

   　

   Contact:

   Marcia Gomes de Oliveira

   Executive Director

   International Uranium Film Festival

   Urânio em Movi(e)mento

   http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org

   info@uraniumfilmfestival.org

   Telefone: 21 2507 6704

   　

   Address:

   Uranium Film Festival

   Rua Monte Alegre 356/301

   Santa Teresa

   Rio de Janeiro/RJ

   CEP 20.240-190

   Brasil

   Comment by Urânio em Moviemento (@URANIUMFESTIVAL) | March 9, 2012 | Reply

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