| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, 80 min., 27 sec.) |
| Summary |
What if your community had to decide whether to leave their homeland forever and there was no help available? This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips through their already damaged home, the Takuu community experiences the devastating effects of climate change first hand. In this verite-style film, three intrepid characters Teloo, Endar and Satty, allow us into their lives and their culture and show us first hand the human impact of an environmental crisis. Two scientists, oceanographer John Hunter and geomorphologist Scott Smithers, investigate the situation with our characters and consider the impact of climate change on communities without access to resources or support. Intimate observational scenes allow Teloo, Endar and Satty to take us on their personal journeys as they consider whether to move to an uncertain future in Bougainville or to stay on Takuu and fight for a different, but equally uncertain, outcome. This film gives a human face to the direct impacts of climate change in the Pacific, challenging audiences everywhere to consider their own relationship to the earth and the other people on it |
| Notes |
Produced as a partnership between New Zealand Film Commission and Creative New Zealand |
| Credits |
Cinematography, Briar March ; editing, Prisca Bouchet, Briar March ; music, Marshall Smith and Tom Fox - The Sound Room, Mark Smythe |
| Performer |
Onsceen participants, Faith Endar Adu, Teloo Fakatutufenua, Satty Puaria, John Hunter, Scott Smithers |
| Event |
Originally produced by On the Level Productions in 2010 |
| Notes |
Closed-captioning in English |
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In English, Takū, and Tok Pisin with English subtitles |
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Best documentary, Raindance Film Festival; best documentary, Jameson Cinefest, Miskolc International Film Festival ; Leipziger Ring Award, DOK Leipzig; official selection IDFA; Jury Grand Prix FIFO Pacific International Documentary Film Festival |
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Climatic changes -- Papua New Guinea -- Tauu Islands
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Global warming -- Papua New Guinea -- Tauu Islands
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Human beings -- Effect of global warming on -- Papua New Guinea -- Tauu Islands
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Sea level -- Environmental aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Tauu Islands
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Global warming.
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Climatic changes.
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Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on.
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Sea level -- Environmental aspects.
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Tauu Islands (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008035
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| Subject |
Papua New Guinea -- Tauu Islands.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Ethnographic films.
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Documentary films.
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Internet videos.
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Environmental films.
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Documentary films.
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Environmental films.
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Ethnographic films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Internet videos.
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Documentaires.
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Films environnementaux.
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Films ethnographiques.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
March, Briar. director, producer.
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Collie, Lyn. producer.
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Goldson, Annie, producer.
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Adu, Faith Endar. interviewee
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Fakatutufenua, Teloo. interviewee
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Puaria, Satty. interviewee
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Hunter, John. interviewee
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Smithers, Scott. interviewee
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Bonchet, Prisca. film editor
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Smythe, Mark. composer.
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On the Level Productions.
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New Zealand Film Commission.
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Creative New Zealand.
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