Chernobyl Heart

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Chernobyl Heart is a 2003 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo. The film won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at the 2004 Academy Awards.^[1]

In the film, DeLeo travels through Ukraine and Belarus with Adi Roche, the Irish founder of the Chernobyl Children's Project International, observing the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on the health of children in the area. In addition to mutations and severe radiation poisoning, many children suffer from a previously unknown cardiac degradation condition, so common in the area it is known as "Chernobyl heart". DeLeo herself contracted caesium poisoning during the making of the film, although she was successfully treated and made a full recovery.^[2]

Contents 1 Broadcast and release details 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Broadcast and release details

• Chernobyl Heart was shown to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 April 2004.^[3]

• The film was broadcast in the United States by HBO on 9 September 2004.^[4]

• It was shown in Australia on 26 April 2005 as part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Foreign Correspondent program.^[5]

[edit] See also

• Chernobyl Children's Project International

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Chernobyl Heart: Official website
• Chernobyl Heart at the Internet Movie Database
• Chernobyl Children's Project International

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