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Thursday, 24 November 2011

Countdown to Zero: it's only a question of time (2010) by Lucy Walker - Festival de Cannes

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A documentary about the escalating nuclear arms race. The Berlin Wall fell nearly 21 years ago, and millions celebrated around the world. Hindsight reveals that the end of the Cold War was also the start of a far scarier era where the detonation of a nuclear weapon could come from any number of sources. With her documentary
Countdown to Zero, filmmaker Lucy Walker has created a film which should be mandatory viewing for everyone on the planet, although prepare to be chilled by the experience. Through considerable research and interviews with some of the most powerful world figures of the past few decades (including Tony Blair, Pervez Musharraf, President Jimmy Carter, and Mikhail Gorbachev), Walker makes the case that nuclear proliferation has become so out of control that the death of millions by a nuclear device, whether via a nation-state or a terrorist organization, is an inevitability unless major changes are undertaken, and yesterday.

Sinopse do Festival de Cannes
Devido à Participant Media e ao produtor Lawrence Bender, já associados na elaboração de An Inconvenient Truth (“Uma verdade inconveniente”) que recebeu um Óscar em 2007, COUNTDOWN TO ZERO é um documentário impressionante sobre a escalada da crise mundial do armamento nuclear. Escrito e realizado por Lucy Walker (Waste Land, Blindsight), é uma exploração fascinante e aterrorizante ao mesmo tempo dos perigos engendrados pelas armas nucleares que pormenoriza as ameaças que pesam sobre nós hoje em dia e apresenta os pontos de vista de uma série de chefes de Estado e peritos internacionais. Entre eles: O presidente Jimmy Carter, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, Pervez Musharraf, Tony Blair, o antigo agente da CIA Valerie Plame Wilson, Joe Cirincione, presidente do Fundo Ploughshares e Scott Sagan, politólogo na Universidade de Stanford. COUNTDOWN TO ZERO retraça a história da bomba atômica desde a sua origem à situação actual: nove países possuem a arma nuclear, outros fazem tudo para a ter, deixando o mundo num equilíbrio frágil, à mercê de um ato terrorista, de uma falha na diplomacia ou de um simples acidente. O filme defende argumentos irrefutáveis a favor do desarmamento nuclear à escala mundial, uma questão tão atual que o presidente Obama e outros dirigentes políticos redobram os esforços para atingirem esse objectivo. Após a primeira estreia mundial no Festival de Sundance em Janeiro de 2010, COUNTDOWN TO ZERO foi projectado aos participantes da cimeira Global Zero, realizada em Paris de 2 a 4 de Fevereiro de 2010 e, alguns dias mais tarde, aos participantes do Congresso Technology Entertainment Design (TED) em Long Beach, Califórnia. O filme será distribuído na América do Norte pela Magnolia Pictures e sairá em Julho.


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