Uranium Film Festival India Koordinator Shri Prakash did again a great job. Now the final report about the International Uranium Film Festival 2014 Tour to India was published: Statements, photos, films about nuclear power, uranium mining, atomic bombs, … worth reading! http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/images/documents/INDIA_Uranium_Film_Festival_2014_Report_New_XX.pdf The next Uranium Film Festivals will take part on Sept. 29. in… Continue reading Uranium Film Festivals 2014
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The Ekotopfilm festival
International festival of Sustainable Development, Bratislava (Slovak Republic) 31 st July = deadline for film entries The 40th International Festival of Sustainable Development Films – ekotopfilm 2013 will be held in October 7-11th, 2013 in the capital city of Bratislava, Slovak Republic.The Ekotopfilm is a week-long festival providing the visitors with documentary films all over… Continue reading The Ekotopfilm festival
Green Screens 2013 at Film Society of Lincoln Center
May 31-June 4, 2013, Amphitheater at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, in New York Green Screens focuses on the planet for an entire week of films that examine eco-crises and also highlight what people all around the world are doing to face these challenges. COOL STORIES FOR WHEN THE PLANET GETS HOT is a part… Continue reading Green Screens 2013 at Film Society of Lincoln Center
This is not a video camera
TEDx talk by Chris Lunch (founder of InsightShare) about “participatory video”, which is an interesting way to do participatory action research (and which he discusses in the context of development projects): Find out more about his work at http://www.insightshare.org/
Uranium Film Festival starts soon in Rio de Janeiro
51 films from 20 different countries will be screened between May 16th and May 26th 2013 in the cinema of Rio de Janeiro´s famous Modern Art Museum (MAM). The International Uranium Film Festival is an annual festival dedicated to all films, short and feature documentaries, movies and animated films about nuclear energy, atomic bombs, nuclear… Continue reading Uranium Film Festival starts soon in Rio de Janeiro
Promised Land – Fracking arrives in Hollywood
The documentary Gasland released in 2010, which portrayed the devastating effects of a method of drilling into shale gas formations called hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, in rural american communities, garnered mostly positive reviews from film critics and newspapers but also negative responses by fracking lobbyists. The latter resulted in the launch of a website called… Continue reading Promised Land – Fracking arrives in Hollywood
Art and Awareness – Uranium Film Festival in Berlin
After taking place twice in Brazil, the International Uranium Film Festival came to Berlin in October 2012. The highlight of the festival was the screening of four movies about the nuclear disaster of Goiânia, 1987, one of them Cesium 137: The Nightmare of Goiânia (1990), a movie by already deceased Roberto Pires which had already… Continue reading Art and Awareness – Uranium Film Festival in Berlin
Grounded – Soil Film Festival
Celebrate Soil Awareness! As part of the first Global Soil Week, the film festival Grounded will take place at Kino Arsenal in Berlin on the 18th and the 21st November. On two days, a selection of international films on the topic of soil and soil protection will be shown. Ten directors present the diversity and… Continue reading Grounded – Soil Film Festival
The Yes Men Are Revolting
The Yes Men, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano, known for their satirical interventions at business events, on the internet, television, and in the streets, and famous for their award-winning documentaries “The Yes Men”(2004) and “The Yes Men Fix the World”(2009) are in the process of directing a new movie “The Yes Men Are Revolting” to… Continue reading The Yes Men Are Revolting
Water, Water Everywhere
Water, Water Everywhere, a traveling media exhibition about diverse water issues, is being shown from August 1st to December 31st at Los Gatos Art Museum in the US (click here for details) and will be next at Upez African Humanitarian Development Project, Lagos, Nigeria (October 27 & 28). More information on the exhibition website
