There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho (2010)

There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho Storyline

Three people on a unique Pacific Island face the devastating effects of climate change. As an enormous flood threatens to engulf their paradise, who will decide to flee and leave their culture behind forever? And who will stay, hoping only that God will save them from the ever-rising sea? This documentary is an epic, universal portrait of the very real threat rising sea levels present for our planet and the future of humanity.—Al

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There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho Movie Reviews

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There once was an island, is a very touching documentary, from director Brian March. It shows the life of the natives on the island Takkuu. The island have to fight against the climate change. They have to leave theire homes and have to find a new place to life. Nobody won’t help them. They show a women who carring her father, that is on part that me very impressed. The woman talked about, what she thinks, her feelings and her perspectives. The film makes the viewer sensitive especially for the climate change. I agree to the message. I think we have to save ouer nature and stop the climate change. The film is for everyone. Evrybody should watch it.

Documentary?..Not…Sci-Fi?..Yes…

*contains spoiler*

It is strange that 26.November 2000 Independent published news that claims the island in this movie is going to sink at the latest 2005. Google: takuu singing islanders pay the price

Well… it did not sink 2005, because this movie was filmed in 2006-2008.

This science-fiction movie which is framed to look alike documentary, does not tell us anything about this island erosion which is result of bad planned infrastructure. The “dramatic” flooding in this movie almost but me in tears..Not..The filmmakers “forgot” to say that there has been same kind of flood almost every tenth year at least since 1940’s.

Quess what have change nowadays? There are less flooding. We can read it for the same fellow John Hunters papers who is one researcher in this movie.

In the same document you can read that researchers in this movie didn’t find any link between erosion of atoll and climate chance. Why this is not mentioned in the movie? Well..It does not sell so well.. It is much better feed fools with this kind of Sh*t because it has more feeling.

To sum up

• This movie include same old propaganda what we have heard quite enough..

• It have same well-tried plot than every other climate fiction stories have had for an long time..

• This kind of films make me feel sick.

BTW. German researcher Anke Mösinger just arrived back from this atoll in 16.June.2014. Everything was just fine like it was before this movie. Most positive signal is that, the population in this atoll doesn’t believe in this climate s*hit either.

Sorry for my bad English.

Fascinating Climate Change Documentary

Directed by Briar March, There Once Was An Island: Te Henua E Nnoho is a documentary about a Polynesian community living on the Island of Takuu in the South Western Pacific and the effect that climate change is having on their Island.

400 people live on the tiny Island of Takuu, they’re an intelligent community which hold their traditions and culture close to their heart but live in fear that they may have to all move to Bougainville, Papa New Guinea due to the rise in sea levels and farming problems they’re having.

The film focuses on the lives of three members of the community in particular Teloo, Endar and Satty and how the environmental problems are affecting their lives. Due to sea levels rising, crops on the Island can’t grow properly forcing the Island to often ask for food from Bougainville but the boat which visits the Island only comes a few times a year so the Island has to be very much self-sufficient. The town have a meeting to decide what their plan of action is, some people believe that God made the Island so he will know that the water level is rising and therefore help them in someway but most people agree that they need scientists to visit the Island and study it before they can know how to save it or if they need to move elsewhere. Oceanographer John Hunter and Geomorpholgist Scott Smithers travel to the Island and do tests, teach the farmers how to protect their crops and confirm the communities fears that the Island could soon be underwater if they don’t create stronger sea walls and move the houses onto higher parts of the land. During their visit massive waves hit the Island causing a dangerous damaging flood which destroys many wooden buildings, crops and all of their school books. Days after the flood the islanders still can’t fish or farm crops as it’s too dangerous and the only ship that can visit the Island from Bourgainville is not sailing due to the crew being on strike. The community hardly have anything to eat and this event shocks them into considering maybe moving to Bourgainville is a possibility as when things get worse on the Island there won’t be much help available to them. The people talk of how hard it would be moving though as for once they’ll have to work for money to buy food rather than grow it or fish for it themselves which will be a big culture shock and they don’t want future generations to forget their culture and past.

The Cinematography in the film captures well the beauty of the island and it’s people’s lives. Beautiful sandy beaches, palm trees and forest cover the Island and some of the shots are just spectacular. The film is quite slow paced but this works due to the islands relaxed way of living. The only minor flaw I had with the film was that there was a lot of chunks of information to read instead of their being a voice-over which I think would’ve resulted in the film flowing better, but as I said this isn’t a big problem.

Overall I really enjoyed the documentary, it was very interesting, all people were very likable and it’s shocked me into thinking more about climate change. Takuu is slowly being destroyed due to the of the rest of the world, the Islanders have played no part in this happening and it causes the viewer to sympathise with them and want to cut down their carbon footprint seeing innocent people’s lives being ruined in this way. I believe the film should be shown on a popular TV channel where many people can view it, I think it could change the way a lot of people think about climate change.

I saw the film at a Press Preview as part of Raindance Film Festival on 21st September.