Millennium Island Laptop Raffle

Mauri and Hello, 

My name is Kaeruru Lulu DeBoer and I'm the Director/Producer of the documentary Millennium Island. 

This documentary attempts to communicate the human emotions and truth of climate change adaptation. Many in the western world don't even believe that climate change exists. Millennium Island approaches this audience by focusing on a human interest story over the politics and science.  

Millennium Island Status
So far some R&D has been secured from ITVS and PIC but because these are US federal funds so none can be used to purchase some much needed equipment for filming.

You can check out the rest of our fundraising efforts online at the Millennium Island Facebook Page.
https://www.facebook.com/millenniumisland


Thanks to the kind donation from BLUE LAGOON SALES, I'm proud to raffle off a brand new Toshiba Laptop Computer. 

Millennium Island Synopsis. 

A young woman, pacific islands, and the end of the world as we know it. Millennium Island is a personal documentary about climate change in the small island nation of Kiribati. The film follows Lulu DeBoer, myself, a half Kiribati/American woman who goes on a journey to reconnect with Kiribati culture after twenty years of living in America. I first establish my relationship to my family and memory of Kiribati, visit for the first time in my remembered lifetime, and then continue on to experience the devastation of climate change on the country; the sea walls, flooded churches, and sinking rusted WWII tanks.  Raw emotions flare up as my family and I discuss the options for the Kiribati people. My journey into the Kiribati islands is then paralleled by the exodus of one of my cousins. She must leave Kiribati for the first time to a western country in order to find education, work, and bring over the rest of her relatives. This is what it means to adapt, to be resilient in the face of global problems outside of your control. The Kiribati people are more than victims, we were the lucky ones. Kiribati knew the end was coming 20 years ago and the rest of the global community that has been denying climate change for so long will be taken by storm, literally.

The Millennium Island Team. 
Lulu DeBoer (director/producer) has worked on two feature documentaries before; The Forecaster (2015) and The Promise (2016) with two other Millennium Island team members Michele Gentile and Ajoscha Haupt, in Germany. Producer, Tommy Sowards has more than 20 years of documentary and film experience, his work Slippn’: 10 Years with the Bloods (2005) won several major awards domestically and abroad.