Sun Come Up - Film Screening and Discussion
Date & Time: October 30, 2015 | 12:00 AM – 01:30 AM
Location: Katz Auditorium
Sun Come Up is an Academy Award® nominated film that shows the human face of climate change. The film 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. When climate change threatens their survival, the islanders face a painful decision. They must leave their ancestral land in search of a new place to call home. Sun Come Up 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 film will be followed by a panel discusson with Lara B.Fowler (Penn State Law and Penn State Institutes of Energy & the Environment) and Sinfree Makoni (Penn State Applied Linguistics and Afrian American Studies). The discusion will be moderated by Sophia McClennen (Center for Global Studies and School of International Affairs).