International Uranium Film Festival returns to Window Rock

The International Uranium Film Festival, which travels the globe each year showcasing films of every genre about every facet of nuclear power and nuclear weapons, will be back at Window Rock November 29-December 1. It will then go on to Flagstaff, Arizona, Albuquerque and Grants, New Mexico, ending in Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 9.

The festival was at Window Rock in 2013. It is back, say the organizers, at a timely moment. “Now in 2018, we are returning to the United States at a time when there is renewed interest in restarting the Mt. Taylor [uranium] mine located near Laguna and Acoma Pueblos and Grants in NM,” they write on their website. “Despite no operating mines in New Mexico in the last nearly thirty years, the possibility that it could restart is tantalizing to local communities that face economic hardships. The Uranium Film Festival is an opportunity to provide education and remembrance of what actually happened during mining operations and a look at the environmental and health devastation left behind.” Read more about the Festival and how to get tickets.