Judy Irving wins Top Award in Rio de Janeiro
US filmmakers Judy Irving and Christopher Beaver are among the top award winners of the 14th International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2025. They received for „Nagasaki Journey (Digitally Restored Version)“ the festival’s Memory Award for the restoration of a powerful historical documentary film that connects todays young generation with the suffering of the young atomic bomb victims of Nagasaki.
Judy Irving and Christopher Beaver said: „We accept the Memory award with gratitude on behalf of the people who appear in our film: Sumiteru Taniguchi, Victor Tolley and Itsuko Okubo, whose voices and testimony continue to be heard and reverberate beyond the time of their passing. We are grateful to the Uranium Film Festival for keeping their voices present and alive for this generation and generations to come. The continuing question raised in our film is whether Nagasaki will be remembered as only the second city to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon, or whether it will be the last.“
Judy Irving is a Sundance and Emmy-Award winning filmmaker. In 2015 she was elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Documentary Branch.
Christopher Beaver is an Emmy-Award winning and Academy-Award-shortlisted documentary producer and director. He has focused on producing and directing films, and multi-media, that are often referred to as “environmental films.” Among these films is the feature documentary "Dark Circle", directed and produced together with Judy Irving, about nuclear weapons and nuclear power that has received the Grand Prize in Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival then called the US Film Festival.
The 14th International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) of Rio de Janeiro was held at the Cinematheque of the Modern Art Museum (MAM Rio) from May 17 to May 31, 2025.
In 2024 the in the world unique film fest on everything nuclear and radioactive was honored by the MoviemakerMagazine as one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in World.
See here all IUFF 2025 award winners
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