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Uranium Film Festival arrivng In USA

Uranium Film Festival to hit Duke City first “ABQ Journal, By Adrian Gomez / Asst. Arts Editor, Reel NM “…….The traveling festival will make its first stop in the United States in the Duke City on Wednesday, Nov. 27 and Thursday, Nov. 28. It will then move on to Santa Fe and Window Rock, Ariz., before heading to New York City and Washington, D.C., in February.

The festival highlights more than 40 films from 15 countries that explore not only the radioactive element called uranium, but nuclear practices as well.

Lopez, a coordinator for the festival, says the films are documentaries, experimental and animated films, new comedies, fiction and science-fiction films……..

The festival was founded by Norbert G. Suchanek of Germany, who now lives in Brazil. It is dedicated to showing films that highlight the entire Nuclear Fuel Chain – from uranium mining, nuclear power plants and uranium bullets to Hiroshima, Fukushima and Fallujah.

At the festival, Suchanek and Marcia Gomes de Oliveira, executive director, will present discussions along with producers and directors of the films.

One of the films to be showcased will be Santa Fe resident Adam Jonas Horowitz’s documentary “Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1.” The film will screen at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27.

Also being shown is the film “Atomic Bomb Home” by Japanese filmmaker Katsumi Sakaguchi. It will screen at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 28.

The documentary observes people living in the Genbaku Home (Atomic Bomb Home), a nursing home in Nagasaki, Japan, for aged atomic bomb victims. They put on re-enactments of Aug. 9, 1945 in Nagasaki to hand on their memories and prayers to peace.

Lopez says it’s films like the ones being screened that will help open people’s eyes to this subject…….http://www.abqjournal.com/307924/news/uranium-film-festival-to-hit-duke-city-first.html

November 25, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general