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Urânio em Movi(e)mento, the 1st INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL is Latin America´s first film festival to highlight nuclear and radioactive issues. It is an annual event with 2 international competitions. It will be held from May 21st to 28th, 2011 in the city of Rio de Janeiro and from June 2nd to 9th in the city of São Paulo.

The Uranium Film Festival wants to inform especially the Brazilian and Latin American societies and stimulate the production of independent documentaries and movies about the whole nuclear fuel cycle, about the dangers of radioactivity and especially about the environmental and health risks of uranium exploration, mining and processing. The world experiences since 2005 a new nuclear energy renaissance, which needs to be openly discussed. All South America and especially Brazil experiences a new boom of nuclear energy and uranium mining projects. But until today the population is not yet well informed about the radioactive nuclear risks. Every society, every peoples have the right of choice. But every decision needs at first information. The festival founders believe that independent information is cruel for the global citizens, because independent information is the base for independent decisions.

The Uranium Film Festival will be very important not only for Brazil, Latin America and other Portuguese speaking countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. The event in Rio de Janeiro also will bring the Uranium-Question into the international public world-wide. Rio is not only the real centre of the nuclear industry of Brazil and Latin America. Rio will be the centre of the next football (soccer) world cup and the city of the next Olympic games and so the world is watching! And 2012 when the "Rio+20 Earth Summit" happens Rio de Janeiro will be again in the focus of the environmental world.

The second objective of the Festival is the creation of the Yellow Archives.

Yellow Archives

Until today most of the documentaries about uranium and the nuclear risks are mainly in English, German or French - but not in Portuguese. So the second advantage of our Uranium Film Festival is to subtitle the films to create the so called Yellow Archives. Yellow is the colour of Uranium and for that a symbol for the whole nuclear industry. The Yellow Archives will be the first-ever film library in Brazil and Latin America dedicated to films about the whole nuclear fuel chain organized by the Uranio em Movi(e)mento Festival. Believing that awareness is the first step in making positive changes to better our environment, the Yellow Archives hopes to increase public awareness especially in Brazil and in other Portuguese speaking countries like Portugal or Angola and Mozambique. The DVDs will be used for non-profit, educational and research purposes. Especially schools, universities, environmental groups and other grass root movements will have access to the Yellow Archives