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On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred when a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine,
releasing 90 times the radioactivity of the atomic bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sixteen years later, award-winning filmmaker
Maryann De Leo took her camera to ground zero, following the devastating
trail radiation leaves behind in hospitals, orphanages, mental asylums
and evacuated villages. The Academy Award®-winning documentary short
debuts immediately after the America Undercover special “Indian Point:
Imagining the Unimaginable”.
Following Adi Roche, founder of Ireland’s Chernobyl Children’s Project, CHERNOBYL HEART opens in the exclusion zone, the most radioactive
environment on earth. From there, Roche travels to Belarus, home to many
of the children she seeks to aid. The film reveals those hardest hit by
radiation, including thyroid cancer patients and children suffering
from unfathomable congenital birth and heart defects.
Despite the fact that 99% of Belarus is contaminated with radioactive material, many people refuse to leave their homes behind. Asked why he
would not move, the father of a radiation victim replies, “To leave the
motherland where you were born and raised, where your soul is connected
to the earth – I would not want to. To move to a new place is difficult,
especially in terms of a job in Belarus and abroad.
In Belarus, only 15-20% of babies are born healthy. Roche comforts children who are born with multiple holes in their heart, a condition
known in Belarus as “Chernobyl heart.” A lucky few will have their heart
problems fixed by Dr. William Novick, who heads the International
Children’s Heart Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to
helping children with congenital or acquired heart disease in developing
countries throughout the world. After saving the life of a young girl
suffering from Chernobyl heart and being humbled by her parents’
gratitude, Dr. Novick affirms, “I appreciate this is a bit of a miracle
for them…but we have a certain responsibility to these kids.”
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