URANIUM – IS IT A COUNTRY?
This documentary takes a look at the footprints of nuclear energy. There the Olympic Dam uranium mine is run by the multinational corporation BHP Billiton. An indigenous resident speaks of the impact the mine has on the environment in which he lives. Meanwhile, 1300 km away in Melbourne activists demand an immediate pullout from the dirty business. The spokesperson for the Australian Uranium Association talks of a bright future. On the other side of the world, nuclear energy is a subject of debate. The film was produced by an independent Team of 15 young people, who engage in the pullout of nuclear energy.
2009, Germany, 53 min.
Prod. / Dir.: Stephanie Auth, Isabel Huber, Kerstin Schnatz
Music: Lars Deutsch
Stephanie Auth
(b. 1981, Lohr am Main, Germany)
Stephanie Auth is a social worker and performance artist. During her studies of social work at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt she went to South Africa to complete a six months internship. She was team leader of a theater project for imprisoned youths in Cape Town and worked with children in town ships. She also holds a Master's degree in Performance Studies from the University of Hamburg and has performed several plays and performances in public. For the initiative's first film Uranium – Is It a Country? she has worked in project coordination, research, production and directing. Her biggest motivation to be part of the project was to give people in Germany a new reason to change from a conventional electricity provider to green energy without nuclear power.
Filmography
Uranium – Is It a Country? (2009)