SYNOPSIS
GET
UP STAND UP/34 MNTS/TAMIL,MALAYALAM WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES/INDIA/2012
The documentary, “Get
Up, Stand Up”, 34 minutes in duration, is in some ways, an answer to many of
the myths surrounding the nuclear power projects, the world over. Though this
film is set particularly in the back drop of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project
and the people’s struggle against it, it raises almost all of the questions
regarding the safety of nuclear plants, development and its imposition on a
people, alternate sources of energy and their contribution to the total energy
needs, the lack of scientific know-how in disposing nuclear waste, the
dependence on foreign resources in the running of a nuclear power plant
anywhere in the Third World countries, the ups and downs of the People’s
Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), in Kudankulam etc, etc.
In the aftermath of
the Fukushima accident and its unprecedented and innumerable fallouts, the
people all over the world, even those in France, where they depend so much on
Nuclear Power for their electricity, will under no circumstances believe
nuclear energy is safe!! As is shown in this documentary, even the former
President of India, A P J Abdul Kalaam failed miserably in convincing the
ordinary people of Kudankulam of the Plant’s safety.
The mainstream media, for all the
unsaid reasons, have set their priorities in side-lining the people’s
struggle in Kudankulam; to uphold the rights of these fishworkers’ to stand up
for their rights, to a safe and clean living, is not countersigned by the
popular media. hence it seems all the more important that the message of this
documentary film reaches far and wide into the minds of as many people as
possible within India and outside. The film, Get Up Stand Up, after
having received much acclaim in Kerala, especially after the screening at the
International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2012, at various
university campuses and other public screenings, we started an anti-nuclear
signature campaign from amongst the audience; the result was amazing, people
came forward to put their signature in large numbers. This campaign could be
carried forward, with your help too.
Photo:Salish Syla
behind the film...
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