June 1, 2011 - The world's First International Uranium Film Festival and its awards ceremony ended Saturday night with what festival coordinator Marcia Gomes de Oliveira called "a real "bombastic surprise."
"Atomic Bombs on Planet Earth," the newest production of British film director Peter Greenaway, was shown to the invited awards-night audience.
"Very surprisingly from 1945 to 1989 - there have been 2,201 atomic bombs dropped on the planet Earth - an astonishing number of atomic bombs implying huge destruction and fallout," reads the synopsis of the 12 minute film completed in March.
The film shows evidence of every bomb explosion, documented with the nation responsible, the date and location, the force and the height above earth or sea level, in what the synopsis calls "a relentless build up of accumulating destruction that is both awe-inspiring and dreadful in the true biblical sense of the phrase - full of dread."
"We received that fantastic short film of Greenaway today," Festival Director Norbert Suchanek said Saturday. "We have decided that "Atomic Bombs on Planet Earth" will be the opening film of the Second International Uranium Film Festival May 2012 in Rio de Janeiro!" In 2012, Rio will host Rio+20, a major United Nations conference centered on sustainable development.
More than 1,000 viewers attended the First International Uranium Film Festival, which showed 34 international documentaries and films about the nuclear fuel chain and radiation risks at two theaters in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Santa Teresa. {continued}
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Thanks for posting the information about our International Uranium Film Festival. Now I want to announce that the Uranium Festival goes World-Wide and even to Washington D.C. - After its glamourous final 2 weeks ago the 1st International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro received invitations from all over the world.
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More information and photos:
Marcia Gomes de Oliveira
info@uraniumfilmfestival.org
www.uraniumfilmfestival.org