[Reader-list] Travelling Uranium Film Festival (Rio-Lisbon-Berlin-New Delhi-New York) January 4-6, New Delhi

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

TravelingUranium  Film Festival in India- Pressrelease

 
The Traveling International Uranium Film Festival  is going to be inaugurated  in New Delhi  on January 4th  in Siri Fort auditorium no. 3 and will be on  road  to  major Indian cities  like Delhi, Shillong , Ranchi, Hyderabad,  Mumbai, Pune, Chennai and  finally end its journey as part of VIBGYORInternational film festival , Thrissur ( Kerala )  in February, 2013 .  It will be a three day event in each location.The screening of the films would befollowed by an interactive session where audience can raise their issues,concerns and queries before the organizers. The festival will offer wide rangeof animation videos, short films, documentaries and even feature films from  all over the world.  International Uranium  Film Festival was  first held in Rio (Brazil) and then travelledto Portugal, Germany and  would moveto  New York  after the Indian edition.
 
 “Today Contemporary issues such as Globalwarming,  climate change are becomingpart of the education curriculum. There is a growing awareness among people toconserve environment with inclination towards using  Green technologies. Green energy vs. Nuclearenergy is today the most engaging contemporary debate in India. In this crucialperiod, there is a need to move the debate further and we feel that  art and culture is the best medium to reach alarge audience. Today when India  and other  developingcountries need energy to ensure that their  citizens  need  agood standard of living and  to  address the energy needs , establishments   are ambitious to go to any  limit toachieve their goal . As  down south,  our fisherman brother and sisters have beenraising  concerns  and anxious about clean environment  unfortunately instead of addressing theirconcerns, they  are being   labeled as anti-national andanti-development and  pushed to dead end.We need to just stop and ponder. Shouldn’t we learn from experiences of thecommunities of the past to take new decision? asks National awardwinning  documentary filmmakerShriprakash, Festival director of the India edition. 
 
The festival unfolds a whole new world of similar  experiences of the communities from all over the world and  it shows the vested  economic andpolitical interest  which  drives this whole  nuclear industry.  It also makesone  understand   all aspectsof nuclear fuel cycle. 
 
“Independent information is the base for independent decisions. Thefestival stimulates the discussion about the nuclear question andstimulates the production of new documentaries, movies and animated filmsabout any nuclear or radioactive issue. In addition Uranium FilmFestival creates a neutral space to throw light on all nuclear issues.Societies and peoples have the right of choice if they want to follow thenuclear road or not” says Mr. Norbert ,  internationalfestival director ,  whose mind’s harvest was organization ofTravelling Uranium Film Festival across the globe in order to make people moreaware and cognizant.
 
Mr.Shriprakash  says that almost all the required work hasbeen completed and they are relentlessly working for the pending tasks. He saidhe was hopeful and excited for the response of the people towards this festival.   
             
Delhi-     4-6 January, 2013 
Shillong-   10 –11 January , 2013
Ranchi-   15-17 January, 2013 
Hyderabad - 22-25th January  
Pune-    27- 31 January, 2013  
Mumbai -  2-3February , 2013
Chennai-  5- 7February , 2013 
Thrissur  -  7-12 February , 2013 
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