Antinuclear

Cinema in the Shed: Film screening to highlight local and global nuclear debate

What: Screening of Containment (2015) in Hill End, NSW

When: From 6:30pm, Saturday January 16, 2016

Where: Pomanara Merino Stud Farm, opposite shortlisted nuclear waste facility site.

Movie trailer: http://containmentmovie.com/#trailer

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/584806271670932/

A community screening of the film Containment, produced by Harvard University Professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss, will be held in Hill End (NSW) on Saturday January 16.

The No Central West Nuclear Waste Dump committee has organised the event to share information on the national radioactive waste dump selection process and provide a global and intergenerational perspective on the nuclear industry.

Containment uses striking imagery and animation to ask practical and philosophical questions about the long-term storage of radioactive waste. Viewers are asked to consider: “How should we protect yet-to-come generations of humans on earth- people who will not share our language, our nations, even our civilisation?”

The film will be shown in the woolshed at Pomanara Merino Stud Farm, which is located opposite the site nominated and subsequently shortlisted for the national radioactive waste facility.

Sydney trio RAPT will also perform at the start of the evening to show support for the community campaign.

The local community has shown overwhelming opposition to the proposed radioactive waste facility. A series of public meetings have been held and local residents have presented to and gained supported from nearby town councils.

Public comments on the national waste facility proposal are due by March 11 and the No Central West Nuclear Waste Dump committee hopes the film screening will inspire more local people to make submissions to the government expressing their opposition.

January 13, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ACTION