Ireland,
1993, 53 min
Shown in 1995
CREDITS
- dir
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Gerry Hoban
- scr
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Gene Kerrigan
- cam
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Donal Gilligan
- editor
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Isabel Stephenson
- source
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Maria Anderton
- gga award
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Golden Spire, Film & Video: Environment
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COMMENTS
Shown with Ecological Design: Inventing the Future.
OTHER
The human consequences of environmental catastrophe and new solutions to living on Earth are explored in this program. Black Wind White Land—Living with Chernobyl is an absorbing portrait of the people of Belarus, the former Soviet republic most affected by the release of radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Soviet officials’ callousness to the devastating effects of radiation on the bodies and souls of its citizenry is unforgivable; the stories of those living with the legacy of Chernobyl provide undeniable witness to the unacceptable risks of nuclear power.
—Mary W. Houghteling
FACTOID #361
John Huston, director of classics The Maltese Falcon and The Misfits, was honored with a Festival tribute in 1968. His daughter Anjelica received the Peter J. Owens Award in 1991; The Dead, one of the father-daughter duo’s collaborations, screened at her onstage interview.
