Chernobyl Heart

Chernobyl Heart is a 2003 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo. The film won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at The 76th Academy Awards.^[1]

Chernobyl Heart
Directed by	Maryann DeLeo
Produced by	Maryann DeLeo
Edited by	John Custodio
Production company	Downtown Community Television Center
Distributed by	HBO
Release date	2003 (2003)
Running time	39 minutes
Country	United States

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. Many children developed a previously unknown cardiac degradation condition^[2] known in the area as "Chernobyl heart", in addition to other severe radiation poisoning effects.^[3]

DeLeo explored the Chernobyl disaster again in 2008 with the film White Horse.

Broadcast and release details

• Chernobyl Heart was shown to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 April 2004.^[4]
• The film was broadcast in the United States by HBO on 9 September 2004.^[5]
• It was shown in Australia on 26 April 2005 as part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Foreign Correspondent program.^[6]

See also

• Chernobyl Children's Project International
• White Horse (film)
• Zone of alienation
• Ventricular septal defect (VSD)
• List of books about nuclear issues
• List of Chernobyl-related articles
• The Truth About Chernobyl
• Chernobyl. Vengeance of peaceful atom.