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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.
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.
Photographer credit to be used at all times: courtesy of Chiara Goia.
August 23rd, 2012
Get your DVD before The Maldives dissapears under water..
June 19th, 2012
Watch the film online now via iTunes and Dogwoof.TV
May 10th, 2012
Get yourself to Sheffield this June to see some of our best documentary films
March 30th, 2012
Screenings will be followed by some very special Q&A's
March 27th, 2012
Picturehouses across the UK and Ireland will have a not to be missed screening
March 15th, 2012
Jon Shenk’s The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives
February 28th, 2012
The Island President, Even the Rain and Putin's Kiss all to screen
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