Documentary Analysis: Sun Comes Up

The documentary, “Sun Comes Up,” is about how climate change is making the people of Carteret Island relocate to the mainland because their food supply is diminishing and the island is sinking (Redfearn). The Carteret people sent a group of their young people to the mainland to search and ask different villages for some land, so they will be able to relocate (Redfearn). They eventually find one village, Tinputz, that will provide them enough land for five houses, this way they can start the relocating process, but more land will need to be found (Redfearn). There are many differences between the Carteret people and Bougainville people. One fear of relocating is that the Carteret people will have nothing because they use “traditional shell