{"id":1492,"date":"2013-01-24T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:19:03","slug":"sun-come-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/sun-come-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Come Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Description: <\/strong>Sun Come Up follows the relocation of some of the world&#8217;s first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders &#8211; a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean. When rising seas threaten their survival, the islanders face a painful decision: they must leave their beloved land in search of a new place to call home. The film follows relocation leader, Ursula Rakova, and a group of young islanders led by Nick Hakata as they search for land in war-torn Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea 50 miles across the open ocean. But many Bougainvilleans remain traumatized by the &#8220;Crisis&#8221; as the civil war is known locally. Nick Hakata and his fellow islanders meet a few sympathetic locals, but will the Bougainville communities welcome them to move there?<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/11537535?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Director: <\/strong>Jennifer Redfearn<br \/>\n<strong>Year: <\/strong>2011<br \/>\n<strong>Length: <\/strong>38 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>Country: <\/strong>USA<br \/>\n<strong>Distributor: <\/strong>New Day Films<br \/>\nWebsite: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newday.com\/films\/suncomeup.html\">www.newday.com\/films\/suncomeup.html<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Contact: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:info@suncomeup.com\">info@suncomeup.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description: Sun Come Up follows the relocation of some of the world&#8217;s first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders &#8211; a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean. When rising seas threaten their survival, the islanders face a painful decision: they must leave their beloved land in search of a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,151],"tags":[21,156],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-clip","category-films-2","tag-environment","tag-sustainability","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}