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Losing Alaska

Tom Burke
Ireland
2018
83 min
International Premiere
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An urgent story reveals the drastic consequences of climate change. Due to rising temperatures, the village of Newtok, Alaska is slowly vanishing into the sea. The 375 inhabitants of this vast and beautiful area of permafrost have lived for years with the constant fear of their village literally sinking. We see how the Yup’ik support themselves by fishing and hunting in the traditional way. The constant threat is a nightmare—watching the ground disappear under your feet seems to belong to a horror movie plot.

“Like a cookie monster eating cookies” is how 19-year-old Bosco describes the way the ocean is devouring the coastline. Fearful questions divide the tight-knit fishing community: will they have to abandon their village and leave for another part of the country, or will they move to firmer ground nearby? Although we hear Obama describe the situation in a 2015 speech as a “wake-up call,” so far the world doesn’t appear to be losing any sleep over the vanishing village of Newtok.

Credits
Director
Executive producer
    Celine Haddad,
    Keith Potter
    Celine Haddad,
    Keith Potter
Cinematography
Sound Design
    Steve Fanagan
    Steve Fanagan
Music
    Gerry Horan
    Gerry Horan
Screening copy
    Marcie Films Ltd
    Marcie Films Ltd
World Sales
    Taskovski Films
    Taskovski Films

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