Time & Tide (2006 film)

Time & Tide is a 2006 documentary film from Tuvalu.[1][2]

Time & Tide
Directed byJulie Bayer
Josh Salzman
Written byJuan Francisco Pardo
Produced byJulie Bayer
Josh Salzman
Starring
    • Eric Chivian
    • Poni Faavae
    • Siaosi Finiki
    • Craig Frances
CinematographyJosh Salzman
Edited byMatthew Martin
Music byAndrew Mclean
Production
companies
Wavecrest Films
Nonfiction Unlimited
Distributed byPacific Islanders in Communications
Release date
24 July 2006
Running time
59 minutes
CountryTuvalu
LanguagesEnglish
Tuvaluan

Production

The creators, Julie Bayer and Josh Salzman, got the idea for Time & Tide in 2000 after reading about how the island nation of Tuvalu had sold the .tv domain name for US$50 million.[3]

The anthropologist Niko Besnier was interviewed for the film; he claimed that he was excluded because he would not go along with the Orientalist "disappearing culture" narrative favoured by the filmmakers.[4]

Synopsis

The documentary sees a group of Tuvaluan New Zealanders on a journey back to the homeland. On arriving in Funafuti, they see how the country has been changed by economic development, imported goods, Western culture and the impending sea level rise due to global warming.

Release

Time & Tide was premiered on 24 July 2006 at the New Zealand International Film Festival.[5]

It won the Best Documentary Prize at the Big Muddy Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at the Sidewalk Film Festival; it also screened at the Hawaii International Film Festival.[1][6]

Film Threat said that "Time & Tide doesn’t overstay its welcome, nor does it feel rushed as it presents us this tragic, yet peaceful and gorgeously shot, film that never jumps up on the soapbox to violently jam a message down our throats. Instead, the filmmakers let the message speak for itself and it’s in the quiet concern of the Tuvaluan people."[3]

See also

References
  1. "Documentary". International Documentary Association. July 20, 2006 – via Google Books.
  2. Fekadu, Sarah; Straß-Senol, Hanna; Döring, Tobias (June 12, 2017). REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature: Vol. 33 (2017): Meteorologies of Modernity. Weather and Climate Discourses in the Anthropocene. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. ISBN 9783823391579 – via Google Books.
  3. "TIME & TIDE | Film Threat". October 19, 2006.
  4. Besnier, Niko (July 8, 2009). Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824833572 – via Google Books.
  5. "Whānau Mārama: Time & Tide" – via www.nziff.co.nz.
  6. "Time & Tide". Pacific Islanders in Communications.
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