Sun Come Up Looks at Community Destroyed by Climate Change Mar. 8

Story posted March 01, 2010

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Photo courtesy of suncomeup.com.

Filmmaker Jennifer Redfearn will introduce and screen her documentary Sun Come Up — which tells the story about one of the first communities to lose their land to climate change — at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 8, 2010, in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. The screening is open to the public and admission is free.

The Carteret Islanders, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, are among some of the world's first environmental refugees. Rising seas contaminate their fresh water and gardening land, erode the shoreline and contribute to severe and often devastating weather. As their beloved homeland disappears into the sea, the Carteret Islanders will lose their connection to their culture, history, and close community.

"Sun Come Up is a testament to the resilience of the Carteret Islanders and the perseverance of the human spirit," say Redfearn and co-producer Tim Metzger. "The islanders are losing their cultural ties and physical connection to the past. Yet in the face of adversity, they are forging ahead. This isn't a familiar third-world narrative about a downtrodden poor people. It's a hopeful story about a community fighting hard to determine its own fate." Read more...

Jennifer Redfearn is a New York-based director, producer, and writer. She comes to documentary filmmaking with a background in environmental and research science. She has conducted research at the world's premier tropical research station in Costa Rica and the world's second largest coral reef in Belize.

Redfearn holds a bachelor's degree in environmental studies from Wellesley College and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

The screening is co-sponsored by Gender Womens Studies and Environmental Studies programs; the Office of Sustainable Bowdoin; and the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good as part of their Seeking the Common Good Series: Innovation for Change.

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