Between May 16th and May 26 the festival screened 52 documentaries and fiction movies from 19 countries.īest Feature Fiction Movie: ATOMIC IVAN – Russia, 2012, 91 min, Director Vasily Barkhatov, Executive producer, Viktoria Gromik, TELESTO FILMīest Feature Documentary: NUCLEAR SAVAGE: The Islands of Secret Project - USA, 2012, 87 min, Adam Jonas Horowitzīest Short Comedy: CURIOSITY KILLS - Estonia, 2012, 14 min, Sander Maranīest Short Documentary: HIGH POWER – India, 2013, 27 min, Pradeep Indulkarīest Animated Film: ABITA – Germany, 2012, 4 min, Shoko Hara, Paul Brennerīest Student Film: NO TO A NUCLEAR JORDAN – Jordan, 2012, 7 min, Solenne Tadros In total six Films from six countries - Russia, India, USA, Estonia, Jordan and Germany - were honored with the Uranium Film Festival’s trophy, the Yellow Oscar. A band of Rio de Janeiro’s famous Favela Mangueira, where Rio´s popular Samba was born, played for the selected audience with the presence of Atomic Bomb Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the festival winners. In typical Brazilian style with Samba and Caipirinha Magnifica ended the 3rd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio Janeiro 2013 in the cinema of the Modern Art Museum (MAM). NPR has more.URANIUM FILM FESTIAL RIO DE JANEIRO YELLOW OSCAR WINNER Film Director Mr Pradeep Indulkar and main film character Mr Chandrasen Namdeo Arekar.jpg The directors received the Best New Documentary Filmmaker award at the TriBeCa Film Festival in 2005. “Through music we changed our reality,” Anderson says. Along with a man named Jose Junior, they launch AfroReggae, a music and dance group that actively recruits members who, once they join, must forsake drugs and alcohol. But after Anderson’s brother is killed, he decides to try to find a way to stop the violence. I was hanging out with criminals,” Anderson says. The sounds of violence.” The first half of the film is shocking in its depiction of brutality in Vigário Geral. Recalling his childhood in the favela, Anderson says, “Instead of falling asleep with our mothers singing to us, we fell asleep to gunshots and people screaming. Set largely in a favela called Vigário Geral, a place that is described as the “Brazilian Bosnia,” the film focuses on the life of Anderson Sa, the cofounder of this N.G.O. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been widely released, and it isn’t available with English subtitles on DVD, but here are three great films you can easily find:ĭirected by Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary, this documentary tells the story of the birth of the social project and band called AfroReggae. With a child on the way, Nascimento wants to survive his last mission: pacifying a favela before the Pope arrives. The award-winning film is told from the point of view of a fictional cop, Captain Nascimento, who is a member of Rio’s police special-forces unit. Such is the case with the recent Brazilian film “Tropa De Elite” (“Elite Squad”). A number of filmmakers have explored the inequality and violence found there, and the result has made for powerful and, at times, controversial movies. Favelas in Rio de Janeiro are largely stateless, marginalized places mostly controlled by drug gangs.
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