Last May we organized the First International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro (Urânio em Movi[e]mento). The Festival is about any nuclear issue from Uranium mining to Atomic Bombs and nuclear Waste and it is about creating awareness. Independent information about the risks of the whole nuclear fuel chain is an important step for a nuclear free future. If people are informed about the nuclear risks, they will not allow nuclear power plants or uranium mining. Therefore, we screened 38 films from all continents and we had an audience of about 1000 people, many of them Students and Teachers.
Actual we are now planning Satellite Uranium Film Festivals in Portugal, India, USA, Germany and the 2nd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro next May/June 2012 when there will be also the huge UN Earth Summit (Rio plus 20) in Rio.
To continue with our growing success story we need financial support and partners.
It would be great if concerned citizens and companies especially solar, wind and alternative energy companies from any country would join and help us.
Nuclear Energy and radioactivity is a global problem, it doesn’t know borders.
Damacio A. Lopez, USA (Executive director of the International Depleted Uranium Study Team – IDUST) said about the Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2011: “In my 25 years as an anti-DU activist this experience (Uranium Film Festival) has been a highlight in the exposure of a very serious problem that faces mankind today: The use of radioactive waste as a military weapon.”