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CNN's screening of Pandora's Promise
is on Thursday evening
November 7, 2013 at 6 PM PST.
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Here is an option to view PANDORA'S PROMISE in the comfort of your home.
PANDORA'S PROMISE, premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January,
will receive its global television debut as a CNN Films broadcast on
Thursday, Nov. 7 at 9:00pm with an encore at 12:00am. All times Eastern.
The atomic bomb and accidents at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and
Fukushima bring to mind apocalyptic disasters, but the science and
experience since suggest that long-held fears about nuclear power may be
wrong. Academy Award (R) nominated director Robert Stone examines
how fears of "nukes" may have extended the era of fossil fuels, perilously
accelerating the pace of climate change as the global demand for energy
soars, particularly in the developing world. Stone takes his camera
inside the exclusion zone around Fukushima, and even ventures inside the
notorious Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Stone tells the intensely personal stories of environmentalists and energy
experts who have undergone profound conversions from being passionately
against, to strongly favoring nuclear energy - putting their careers and
reputations on the line in the process. Through the voices of Stewart
Brand, Gwyneth Cravens, Mark Lynas, Richard Rhodes, and Michael Shellenberger,
Stone exposes this rift within the environmental movement as they describe
their individual journeys of defection. Also included are interviews with
two pioneering engineers of next generation nuclear reactors.
When PANDORA'S PROMISE and BLACKFISH were announced as part of the 2013
fall slate of the network's documentary presentations, Jeff Zucker,
president of CNN Worldwide, said, "Both of these special films represent
exactly the type of engaging, thought-provoking content that is the mission
of CNN Films." "Through our acquisitions and commissions of exceptional
factual content, we aim to encourage dialogue on the issues raised in the
films with our filmmakers, experts, and other stakeholders via our robust
television, digital and social platforms," he said.
"I made this film in order to illuminate what I see as the 'elephant in the
room' when it comes to the ongoing debate about how to tackle climate change,"
Robert Stone said. "We have a moral imperative to lift billions of people
out of poverty, while at the same time dramatically reducing CO2 emissions.
How to do that is the central issue of our time and that led me to take a
second look at nuclear energy," Stone said.