Climate change is threatening to displace 2,500 inhabitants of the Carteret Atoll in the South Pacific. Their stories are the main topic explored in the Academy Award®-nominated film Sun Come Up.
"Sun Come Up" at D.C Environmental Film Festival
Published February 24, 2011
Event date:
March 25, 2011 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Featuring: Jennifer Redfearn
Location: AED Globe Theater
Pulitzer Grantees' Oscar-nominated film to play at D.C Environmental Festival
The D.C. Environmental Film Festival will be showing Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger's Oscar-nominated short documentary at the AED Globe Theater. Sun Come Up tells the story of some of the world's first climate change refugees, who are forced to find a new home due to rising sea levels and more intense storms.
Redfearn and Metzger received a grant from the Pulitzer Center that enabled their travel to the Carteret Islands, a remote atoll in the South Pacific Ocean. A brief discussion with Redfearn will follow the screening.
This event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6pm
AED Globe Theater
1927 Florida Ave., NW
Washington, D.C
20001
Event Details
How filmmakers Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger fell in love during the filming of their Oscar-nominated short documentary Sun Come Up.
Pulitzer Center grantee Jennifer Redfearn discusses the financial challenges of making her Oscar-nominated documentary Sun Come Up to
