International Film Premiere: STALKING CHERNOBYL/ April 16th 2020 onwards

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Kriti Film Club invites you for the online world premiere of 
in collaboration with the filmmaker iara Lee and other partners


Following the global cancellation of large events and festivals during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Cultures of Resistance Films has world premiered "Stalking Chernobyl" online for free and reached out to the Kriti Film Club to partner. This has been important for us not just as a documentary film initiative, but also due to our solidarity with the anti-nuclear people's movements in India. 


WATCH THE FULL MOVIE HERE - https://youtu.be/x3wcUbm2gp4 and 
https://vimeo.com/402625129 The movie is available with English, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Azeri, Arabic and Slovak subtitles. FOR SUBTITLES: ​click CC button >> settings >> subtitles and select your language.

About the Film: This is a fascinating documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films that offers a unique portal into the clandestine culture that has developed around the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone three decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster.
In addition to the explosion of officially-sanctioned tours to what has become Ukraine's top tourist destination, illegal hiking adventurers and urban explorers known as "stalkers"--along with extreme sports enthusiasts, disaster tourists, artists, and underground tour operators--enter "The Zone". Many defy state prohibitions to dodge checkpoints and security guards in order to explore the mysterious and ghostly post-apocalyptic landscape.
About the film maker: Iara Lee, a Brazilian of Korean descent, is an activist, filmmaker, and founder/director of the Cultures of Resistance Network, an organization that promotes global solidarity and connects and supports agitators, educators, farmers, and artists to build a more just and peaceful world through creative resistance and nonviolent action. Cultures of Resistance Films creates and distribute documentaries that advance public awareness about issues of social and economic justice and showcase creative efforts to promote peace and protect human rights. "Stalking Chernobyl" is the eighth full-length documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films.

CHERNOBYL BACKGROUND

On the morning of 26 April 1986, following a nuclear chain reaction and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, 49,000 people were evacuated in two hours, mostly from the nearby town of Pripyat, with just a few belongings, unaware at the time that even their descendants would be able to return to their homes. The original 10km (6 mile) exclusion zone was later increased to a 30 kilometre (19 mile) radius from which a further 68,000 people were evacuated.
The eventual death toll was estimated to be 9,000-16,000 fatalities across the European continent. Nuclear clean-up of the Zone is not scheduled for completion until 2065. The only other nuclear accident in history approaching the scale of devastation seen at Chernobyl was the 11 March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, which displaced 154,000 residents.

JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL Q&A EVENT ON APRIL 26

On Sunday, 26 April 2020 at 17:00 GMT (22:30 in India), the UN-designated International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day, "Stalking Chernobyl" director Iara Lee will be hosting a live online Q&A session moderated by Jodie Evans, CODEPINK founder, with:
• Cindy Folkers, Radiation & Health Specialist from Beyond Nuclear International
• Sergii Mirnyi, scientist/tour operator from Chernobyl Tours
• "Stalking Chernobyl" editor Dimo Petkov, cameraman Anton Fedorko, co-producer Oleg Shalashov • Dominik Orfanus, Yurij Syrcek, and Igor Pasko from the Chernobyl Welcome Tour Company
• Vladislav Voznjuck from the stalker/tour group DiggTour
• Lucas Brunelle, extreme cyclist and creator of "Lucas Brunelle Goes To Chernobyl"

The discussion will also be livestreamed to Cultures of Resistance's Facebook page and YouTube channel.
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