THE HUNGRY TIDE

Films as DIRECTOR
Written By Tom Zubrycki

2011/ 88 min

The Pacific nation of Kiribati is likely to be the first country in the world to disappear as a result of climate change.

Maria Tiimon, a Kiribati woman living in Sydney, has the task of alerting the world to her sinking homeland. We follow her to the Copenhagen Climate Conference and a year later to Cancun. Right from the start Maria struggles to find a balance between her advocacy work and the financial needs of her large family living on the islands. Meanwhile back on Kiribati sea walls are crumbling, and storm tides are sweeping into villages.

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The Hungry Tide SYNOPSIS

The Hungry Tide STUDY GUIDE

The Hungry Tide KIRIBATI HISTORY

The Hungry Tide CLIMATE CHANGE & KIRIBATI

AWARDS

The Hungry Tide won a Special Jury Prize at FIFO - the Oceanian Documentary Film Festival, Tahiti.  The film has also played in film festivals around the word including the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) where it was in competition.

ARTICLES

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The Hungry Tide

The argument about climate change has become a struggle between competing voices: those that deny its existence, those that accept the scientific evidence, and those that seek differentiate between human and non-human causes-of-climate change. In The Hungry Tide, Tom Zubrycki peels away layers of obfuscation to reveal an urgent story of people facing the terror of climate change on their doorstep.

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A Journey We Take Together

Since his earliest days in Sydney's community video movement, Tom Zubrycki has been framing the political through the personal with his intimate portraits of individuals caught up in conflict and change. His latest film examines the effects of global warming through the struggles of Sydney-based activist Maria Tiimon and the plight of her low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati, which is already succumbing to rising sea levels.

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Framing the Political Through the Personal

A CHAT WITH TOM ZUBRYCKI

Since his earliest days in Sydney’s community video movement, veteran documentary maker Tom Zubrycki has been framing the political through the personal, with his intimate protraits of individuals caught up in the winds of conflict and change. His latest film delves into the divided discourse around global warming, through the struggles of Sydney-based activist Maria Tiimon and the plight of her low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati, which is already succumbing to rising sea levels. On the eve of The Hungry Tide’s theatrical release, Dan Edwards spoke to Zubrycki about his fifteenth film, his 70s roots and the state of play in Australia’s documentary realm.

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