Dogwoof have given us this great new trailer for their new movie The Island President which outlines their new documentary focusing around President Mohamed Nasheed’s fight to save the the Maldives. As you’ll see from the trailer, he is speaking to as many world leaders as possible to try and push changes which will reduce climate change as without it, the Maldive Islands will sink into the ocean.
Jon Shenk’s The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.
The Island President captures Nasheed’s first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly. Nasheed is unusually candid about revealing his strategies—leveraging the Maldives’ underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media, and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations. When hope fades for a written accord to be signed, Nasheed makes a stirring speech which salvages an agreement. Despite the modest size of his country, Mohamed Nasheed has become one of the leading international voices for urgent action on climate change.
The documentary is directed by Jon Shenk and it has a limited cinema run from 3rd April. To find a screening near you or to find out more about the film, click here and join the Facebook group here.
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