Dear Ms. Zmushko:
I write with gratitude and great admiration for your documentary film, Chernobyl 20. You donated a screening of your excellent documentary at Physicians for Social Responsibility/UCLA Institute of the Environment’s April 23 conference on Chernobyl. The audience responded with applause and awe as your film beautifully and compellingly tells a story about Chernobyl, [...]

In her documentary Chernobyl 20, screened last Sunday at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment, Yelena Zmushko, a Chernobyl survivor, asks two women in a grocery store, newly repatriated residents of Chernobyl’s still-hot exclusion zone, to explain why so many gravestones in the local cemetery bear the names and ages of people who died in their [...]

Congratulations on your film debut and success! I was very moved by the whole experience last night, sitting there with Beth amid the mostly Russian audience and hearing their stories of the “zone.”
I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciated the film.
Warmly,
Sandra Meucci, Ph.D.
It was definitely an emotional and eyeopening documentary film. [...]

Thank you very much for the film. It’s sad but we all need to see it. I feel very sorry for the people who still live in the contaminated areas.
People were very mistreated by the governmental officials. Roads to the governmental cabinets were built on people’s lives.
Thank you, Zanna Sundeyeva, owner of “Kstati” [...]

Chernobyl 20,” directed by Yelena Zmushko, screens as part of a
symposium on nuclear power and its problems, UCLA. Free, 5:30 p.m.

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