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Washed Away

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Climatologists fear that global warming will cause ocean levels to rise so drastically that whole islands will be submerged. In Washed Away, we meet two island communities struggling to prevent the disappearance of land they have lived on for centuries. For residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, in the Far North, and tropical Tuvalu, a small country in the South Pacific, the situation grows more urgent every day. Scientist believe that unless we reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, even the island of Manhattan is at risk because of rising water levels caused by climate change. Can something be done to prevent these impending catastrophes? Arctic Mission is a collection of five documentary films that explore the impact of global warming on Canada's North.

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Agency:.Co-produced by Glacialis Productions, the National Film Board of Canada and Gedeon Programmes with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, the Québec - Film and Television Tax Credit, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec, Culture et Communications Québec, with the collaboration of Télé-Québec, CBCTelevision Nature of Things, France 2, France 5, Centre National de la Cinématographie Canada-France, and Ministère délégué à la recherche et aux nouvelles technologies.
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Credit Note

Direction, Patricio Henríquez ; script, Patricio Henríquez, Jean Lemire ; cinematography, Sylvestre Guidi ; sound, Philippe Scultéty, Marie-Claude Gagné, Serge Boivin ; picture editing, Michel Grou ; original music, Hervé Postic ; sound editing, Marie-Claude Gagné, Anton Fischlin, Claire Pochon ; music recording, null Claudia Sound ; sound engineer, Stéphane Blaëss ; director-coordinator, Jean Lemire ; research, Pascale Bilodeau, Virginie Millière, Catherine Giroul, Sara Marino, Sylia Taafaki ; technical director, Bruno Abate ; executive producer, Sally Bochner ; sound editing, null Sonomar ; producer, Jean Lemire, Éric Michel, Colette Loumède, Stéphane Millière.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 2003.

Summary

Climatologists fear that global warming will cause ocean levels to rise so drastically that whole islands will be submerged. In Washed Away, we meet two island communities struggling to prevent the disappearance of land they have lived on for centuries. For residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, in the Far North, and tropical Tuvalu, a small country in the South Pacific, the situation grows more urgent every day. Scientist believe that unless we reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, even the island of Manhattan is at risk because of rising water levels caused by climate change. Can something be done to prevent these impending catastrophes? Arctic Mission is a collection of five documentary films that explore the impact of global warming on Canada's North.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Awards Note

Gemeaux for Best Picture Editing (Michel Grou), 2004

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Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).