During the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro’s prestigious Modern Art Museum Cinematheque on May 26, Takashi Morita and Kunihiko Bonkohara received the festival's Life Time Achievement Award, a trophy produced by Brazilian waste-material-artist Getúlio Damado. Getúlio creates the Uranium Film Festival Award from waste material, that he finds in the streets of Santa Teresa. He uses also old watches to remember the first atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Watches in Hiroshima stopped exactly at 8:15 in the morning when the A-bomb exploded on August 6th, 1945. 

 

 

 

Some of the A-Bomb survivors – known in Japanese as Hibakusha – were among a wave of 20th-century migrants who moved across the world in search of a better life after Japan surrendered to the US. Some came to live in Brazil including Takashi Morita and Kunihiko Bonkohara. Later in 1984 Morita founded in São Paulo the Associação das Vítimas da Bomba Atômica no Brasil representing the about 100 A-Bomb survivors living in Brazil. Photo: Takashi Morita (right) and Kunihiko Bonkohara (left) with the Award of the International Uranium Film Festival. Photographer Suchanek.

 

In addition to the festival's Life Time Achievement Award to the Hibakusha in Brazil the International Uranium Film Festival 2019 awarded the new documentary THE SISTERS OF NAGASAKI by Alain Vézina from Quebec with the festival’s Special Recognition. THE SISTERS OF NAGASAKI tells the true story of eight Catholic nuns from Quebec who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, on August 9, 1945.

 

 

 

The International Uranium Film Festival is the only annual film festival that highlights all nuclear and radioactive issues: nuclear fuel chain, uranium mining, atomic bombs, nuclear power plants, nuclear waste & nuclear accidents: from Hiroshima to Fukushima. The first Uranium Film Festival was held May 2011 in Rio de Janeiro. Since that it became a global event, with festival screenings around the globe.

However the Uranium Film Festival has no big sponsors from the industry. It depends mainly on donations by concerned people. For that we kindly ask for your support. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, over 2000 atmospheric atomic bomb tests and their consequences, uranium mining and contamination, nuclear or radioactive accidents like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Goiânia or Fukushima shall never be forgotten nor repeated. We welcome any donation!