Chernobyl Heart

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| director = Maryann DeLeo

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| editing = John Custodio

| studio = Downtown Community Television Center

| distributor = HBO

| released = {{Film date|2003}}

| runtime = 39 minutes

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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 76th Academy Awards.[http://www.oscars.org/76academyawards/nomswins.html 76th Academy Awards Nominees and Winners] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060219061720/http://www.oscars.org/76academyawards/nomswins.html |date=February 19, 2006 }}, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, February 29, 2004.

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{{cite journal|last1=Bose|first1=AS|last2=Shetty|first2=V|last3=Sadiq|first3=A|last4=Shani|first4=J|last5=Jacobowitz|first5=I|title=Radiation induced cardiac valve disease in a man from Chernobyl|journal=Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography |date=August 2009|volume=22|issue=8|pages=973.e1–3|pmid=19647162|doi=10.1016/j.echo.2009.03.027}} known in the area as "Chernobyl heart", in addition to other severe radiation poisoning effects.Kinkead, Gwen: [https://observer.com/2004/07/brooklyn-girl-journeys-to-chernobyls-heart/ Brooklyn Girl Journeys To Chernobyl's Heart], The New York Observer, July 11, 2004.

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