Playlist:  The Human Face of Climate Change: Impacts in the Pacific by Jenna Makowski, Alexander Street Press

While conversations about climate change continue to develop on a global scale, its direct impact is already being felt across the low-lying islands of the Pacific. Communities in Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa, Kiribati, Fiji and beyond are working to document, in real-time, the immediate impacts of rising sea levels and to develop community-based strategies for dealing with its disastrous effects. The videos in this playlist reveal the human side of climate change—lifestyle changes being forced upon entire nations that beg the question: What happens when low-lying coastal communities or independent countries (such as Kiribati or Tuvalu) disappear into the sea?
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Adapting to Climate Change in the Smaller Pacific Island States
produced by Larry Thomas, 1961- (New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization), 2013), 43 mins  
Climate Change is among the most serious challenges facing Pacific Island countries and territories. The small island nations of Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Federated States of Micronesia are no exception particularly with the impacts posed to their communities. This documentary is part of a series of informational videos produced by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s Global Climate Change Alliance: Pacific Small Island States Project - a European Union funded initiative being implemented in 9 Pacific Small Island States
42:59
30 Sep 2014
Building Climate Resilient and Food Secure Communities in Fiji
produced by Larry Thomas, 1961- (New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization), 2014), 14 mins  
This documentary takes you on a journey to Sabeto, a picturesque landscape and important economic hub located along the western region of the country's main islands, Viti Levu, to discover how this regional initiative is utilising innovative techniques and management approaches to strengthen communities resilience to climate change and disasters.
14:12
30 Sep 2014
Building Flood Resilient Communities
produced by Larry Thomas, 1961- (New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization), 2013), 15 mins  
In April 2012 the township of Nadi, located on the western coastline of Fiji's main island Viti Levu, experienced devastating flooding. Due to it's vulnerability to flooding over the years, Nadi has been identified as the first priority for an integrated water resources management (IWRM) demonstration project in Fiji. This documentary demonstrates how the five year project harnesses the coordinated efforts of all sectors of society in the sustainable management and development of water, land and related resources whilst also addressing the urgent need to improve flood management and preparedness.
14:39
30 Sep 2014
Climate Change: A Crisis in the Pacific
directed by Steven Percival, fl. 2002 (Apia, Tuamasaga District: Paradigm Documentaries, 2010), 5 mins  
This film explores some of the issues facing the peoples and environments of the Pacific Islands. Informative and colorful, the film presents the richness of the natural and cultural heritage of the Pacific tempered by the sobering words describing impacts of this unnatural disaster called climate change. The Pacific region, emitting the smallest volume of greenhouse gases in the world, has already relocated humanity's first climate change refugees.
04:50
30 Sep 2014
Moana: The Rising of the Sea
directed by Vilsoni Hereniko, 1954-; produced by Vilsoni Hereniko, 1954- (Suva, Central (Fiji): University of the South Pacific, 2013), 35 mins  
VAKA, DRUA, AND MOANA were created and produced as a trilogy of films that focus on the art of canoe voyaging in the Pacific. VAKA is about the traditional art of canoe building on Fiji, DRUA is about collaboration in double-hulled canoe building among Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and Kiribati and the demise of this art form when steam ships arrived in the Pacific, while MOANA is about the symbol of the double-hulled canoe as a hope for rising sea levels and the human effects of climate change on the Pacific Islands.
34:33
30 Sep 2014
Niuatoputapu: Path to Recovery
produced by Larry Thomas, 1961- (New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization), 2011), 16 mins  
This story demonstrates how the inhabitants are rebuilding their lives after the destructive tsunami and how the establishment of the new radio station is helping in the recovery process.
16:12
30 Sep 2014
O le Uto ma le Maene: The Float and the Sinker
directed by Steven Percival, fl. 2002 (Apia, Tuamasaga District: Paradigm Documentaries, 2008), 29 mins  
This film was produced for the first Pacific Climate Change Film Festival held in Fiji in September 2008. The documentary explores climate change impacts in Samoa.
28:52
30 Sep 2014
Rising Oceans, Changing Lives
produced by Larry Thomas, 1961- (New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization), 2012), 18 mins  
A journey to Lifuka in Tonga Ha'apai group to witness how the Australian government's Pacific Adaptation Strategy Assistance Program (PASAP) is working with the Island communities to assess vulnerability and options for adaptation to sea level rise.
18:19
30 Sep 2014
Sinking Rights
produced by Reggie Dutt, fl. 2006 (New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization), 2007), 34 mins  
This documentary focuses on Tuvalu - a small atoll island state in the Pacific. Warm and welcoming, the Tuvaluan people talk about their fears as they feel the brunt of severe weather conditions, coastal erosions, depleting crops and the slow death of the Tuvaluan way of life.
34:27
30 Sep 2014
The Dilemma of Changing Lifestyles in a Sinking Nation
directed by Aren Baoa, fl. 2011 (New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization), 2008), 21 mins  
A documentary about the challenge that Tuvalu is facing in trying to get its people back to eating their traditional food and home grown fruits and vegetables.
21:16
30 Sep 2014
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