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2nd INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL - 2º Festival Internacional des Filmes sobre Energia Nuclear Rio de Janeiro

28.06. - 14.07.2012

Museu de Arte Moderna MAM Rio de Janeiro

The Festival is about any nuclear issue from uranium mining to atomic bombs, nuclear power plants and nuclear waste.

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."

Peter Greenaway´s "Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth" nominated for "Yellow Oscar"

8 Nominees selected for Rio de Janeiro Uranium Film Festival Awards 2012

– The 2nd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro has nominated eight films representing eight countries for its Award, the Yellow Oscar, in three categories: Best Short, Best Feature and Best Animation. The Festival starts 6 days after the next Earth Summit (Rio plus 20) in the Cinema of the famous Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro called MAM. Between June 28th until July 13th, the Uranium Film Festival will screen over 50 films from all continents about atomic bombs, nuclear energy, uranium mining and radioactive dangers. The film festival will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, July 14th at the same location.