At first sight Takku Island, home to 400 Polynesians, looks like Heaven on Earth. Yet, the effects of climate change disrupt their harmonious existence with nature. For eight years, the director has filmed their fight against the ocean that floods their island and villages where they have been living for the past 1 000 years. Teloo, Endar and Satty 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.
Briar is a documentary filmmaker and Fulbright scholar. Her films have been broadcast on major television networks, released in commercial cinemas, and regularly exhibited in international film festivals. She has received over 30 international awards for her directing, producing, editing, and cinematography. Her filmography includes two feature length documentaries, There Once Was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho (2010), and Allie Eagle and Me (2004), and four shorts: Smoke Songs (2011), Michael & His Dragon (2010), Sick Wid It (2010), and Promenade (2011).
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