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Sun Come Up (2010)

Sun Come Up poster
Directed by
Jennifer Redfearn
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
38 min
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the people of the Carteret Islands as they face rising seas due to global warming. It shows their struggle to find a new place to live as their homeland slowly disappears.

urgentsoberingintimatereflectivequietly desperatehumanizingrealslow-paced

What happens

Sun Come Up is a 2010 documentary film on the effect of global warming on the Carteret Islands. The film showed at the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival on April 8. It was named as a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 83rd Academy Awards on January 25, 2011, but lost to Strangers No More. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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