International Uranium Film Festival
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The International Uranium Film Festival[1] was founded in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, and merges art, ecology, environmentalism and environmental justice, to inform the public about uranium mining and milling, nuclear power, nuclear weapons and the nuclear fuel cycle from "cradle to grave" life-cycle assessment, and the effects of radioactivity on humans and other species.[2] The festival founders and principal organizers are Norbert Suchanek and Marcia Gomes de Oliveira. The legal organizer of the International Uranium Film Festival is the arts and education non-profit "Yellow Archives".[3] The organizers and the festival participants seek to educate and activate the international public on these issues through the dynamic media of film and video.[4]
The films shown typically have content that critiques and analyzes uranium mining, milling, and use, and the effects thereof on land, water and human health.[5] A key objective of the festival is to inform cultures and future generations about the effects of radioactivity and radioactive materials.[6][7][8][9][10] Other themes explore atomic legacy issues, including the research, development, testing and use of nuclear weapons. Many of these events affected specific populations including the Marshall Islanders, Native American cultures in the U.S. Southwest and Northwest, First Nations in Western Canada, among others.[11]
Locations
Following its establishment in Brazil,[12] the festival has moved internationally and in 2024 included ten US and Canadian stops including a focus on Native lands which have been impacted by uranium and other mining.[11][13] Other locations include Germany, Portugal, and India.[14] and the United States.