Can’t Stop the Water
Can’t Stop the Water tells the story of Chief Albert Naquin and the Isle de Jean Charles band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, a tribe that has lived off the lands and waters surrounding their small island in Southeast Louisiana for over 140 years. The film shares some of the background story as to why the Isle de Jean Charles community has decided to resettle upon safer ground and become a model for community resilience.
Can’t Stop the Water
Can’t Stop the Water tells the story of Chief Albert Naquin and the Isle de Jean Charles band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, a tribe that has lived off the lands and waters surrounding their small island in Southeast Louisiana for over 140 years. The film shares some of the background story as to why the Isle de Jean Charles community has decided to resettle upon safer ground and become a model for community resilience.
We are All Related Here
We are All Related Here is a documentary film about the Yup’ik people of Newtok, Alaska, who are being forced to relocate their village due to the erosion of permafrost and flooding they are experiencing as a result of global warming.
Kivalina
Kivalina tells the story of an Inupiaq Eskimo tribe whose island is disappearing into the Alaskan Arctic Ocean. Once a nomadic people, the film begins telling their story a century after their ancestors were settled by the government onto a tiny island made of silt, sand, and permafrost. With no resources to move and only a precarious sea wall to protect them, the community's struggle to maintain their way of life within a landscape and a system that are failing them is poetically explored in this film.
Life on a Vanishing Atoll
Life on a Vanishing Atoll is a new short film produced by Displacement Solutions. It chronicles the very real changes facing the people of Ontong Java, as they face an uncertain future.
Sun Come Up
Sun Come Up follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders, a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean, and now, some of the world’s first environmental refugees. It follows a group of young islanders as they search for land and build relationships in war-torn Bougainville, 50 miles across the open ocean.
The Last Days of Shishmaref
The Last Days of Shishmaref is an online documentary, exhibition, and book about the Shishmaref Inupiaq community who's ancestors have inhabited the Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea of Northwestern Alaska for over 4,000 years. Rapid erosion, permafrost melt, and flooding due to dangerous storms have threatened the island and the eskimo village, leading to plans for resettlement. The film explores the ways that the community has experienced and adapted to this crisis.
The Last Days of Shishmaref is an online documentary, exhibition, and book about the Shishmaref Inupiaq community who's ancestors have inhabited the Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea of Northwestern Alaska for over 4,000 years. Rapid erosion, permafrost melt, and flooding due to dangerous storms have threatened the island and the eskimo village, leading to plans for resettlement. The film explores the ways that the community has experienced and adapted to this crisis.