Sun Come Up
- Original title
- Sun Come Up
- Year
- 2010
- Running time
- 38 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Documentary
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production United States-Papua New Guinea;
- Genre
- Documentary. Adventure | Nature. Half-length Film
- Synopsis
- Sun Come Up is a 2010 documentary film on the effect of global warming on the Carteret Islands. The film showed at the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival on April 8. It was named as a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 83rd Academy Awards on January 25, 2011 but lost to Strangers No More.
PLOT: Sun Come Up tells the story of some of the world's first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders. The film follows relocation leader Ursula Rakova and a group of young families as they search for new homes in war torn Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea.
- Awards
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2010: Oscar: Nominated for Best Documentary, Short Subjects
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