There Once Was An Island Film Trailer

http://www.thereoncewasanisland.com

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.

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Film & Animation

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• trailer
• documentary
• climate
• change

[lyncollie]

I hope that Takuu will find a way to hold onto themselves as time passes either on the atoll or off it. Thanks for watching!

[Luangiuan]

leaving the island should be out from our thoughts...modern tech can make a way..how did the plane fly..beat nature..se kiai nga henua kakou

[ceciliasuka]

the stick dance is like that of the chuukese people. i was led to this footage as i searched for the kapingamarangi people who are supposedly originally from Samoa or somewhere in the Polynesia

[Uchihaheyhi]

mortlock <3