NH #390: Uranium/Nuclear Devastation to Navajo Nation, Japan, India, Greenland? Ames, Iowa?!? International Uranium Film Festival SPECIAL

Norbert Suchanek & Marcia Olviera Gomez, Organizers
Filmmakers, Audience Members – and one Podcaster w/a Book –
at the International Uranium Film Festival in Window Rock, Arizona.

SPECIAL: International Uranium Film Festival

Nuclear Hotseat went to the Capitol of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, to cover the International Uranium Film Festival – 22 films in three days, along with interviews with filmmakers, organizers, and attendees from France, India, Greenland, Germany, Brazil, UK, Denmark, Navajo Nation, and America.  Uranium mining contamination of water and land, nowhere to store the waste, radiation genocide of indigenous people, government cover-ups and individual activists fighting back — the hope came from the fierce and gentle people, the beauty of the films, and the determination to keep on fighting for the one planet we all share.

The Films (CLICK on title for link, where available):

  • THE WOLVERINE: THE FIGHT OF THE JAMES BAY CREE
    Canada, 2014, Documentary, Director: Ernest Webb, Original Langu age: English, 10 min.
  • TALE OF A TOXIC NATION
    USA, 2018, Director Louis Berry, Documentary, English, 13 min
  • DII’GO TO BAAHAANE: FOUR STORIES ABOUT WATER
    USA, 2012, 37 minutes, Produced by Deborah Begel. Co-Directed by Deborah Begel and David Lindblom, Navajo with English subtitles.
  • TOO PRECIOUS TO MINE
    USA, 2017, Director Justin Clifton, Documentary, English, 10 min
  • JADUGODA – THE BLACK MAGIC
    India, 2009, Director Shri Prakash, English, Documentary, 10 min
  • NABIKEI (FOOTSTEP)
    India, 2017, Documentary, Director Shri Prakash, English, 66 min
  • NUCLEAR CATTLE
    Japan, 2016, Director, Tamotsu Matsubara, Production Power-i Inc, Documentary, 98 min, Japanese with English subtitles.

Interview excerpt – Hervé Courtois (l) traveled to Window Rock from France.  He talks about Fukushima and his trip to Japan only two months after the nuclear triple-meltdown started.  The full interview will be featured in early 2019.

Leona Morgan, a Diné woman involved in multiple anti-nuclear groups, left Window Rock for Poland and the COP 24 climate change meetings.  She was one of a group that disrupted a Trump administration-approved presentation on coal and fossil fuels.  Democracy Now was there and here is their video of the demonstration, which starts at about 6:30 in.  Leona speaks at around 7:55.   https://www.facebook.com/democracynow/videos/279232809403191/UzpfSTEyNjg3OTUyMTQ6MTAyMTgzMjYzMDAwMTAwNjY/

  • OFF COUNTRY in-progress excerpt)
    USA, 2018, Directors Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart, 12 min, English
  • URANIUM DERBY
    US, 2017, Director Brittany Prater, documentary, English, 83 min
  • ANOINTED
    Marshall Islands, 2018, Directors Dan Lin & Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, poem video, 6 min.
  • BOBBY BROWN HOMELANDS – LIVING WITH THE LEGACY OF BRITISH NUCLEAR TESTING
    Australia, 2015, Produced and Directed by Kim Mavromatis and Quenten Agius, MAV Media in Association with NITV (National Indigenous TV Australia). Documentary, 5 min
  • GREETINGS FROM MURUROA – TRAILER
    France, 2016, Director Larbi Benchiha, production: Aligal production and France Télévisions, documentary, English, 52 min.

For full information on the International Uranium Film Festival, visit their website:

www.UraniumFilmFestival.org

Norbert Suchanek (r) and Marcia  Gomes de Oliveira