WMM congratulates Jennifer Redfearn on her Academy Award© nomination for Best Documentary, Short Subject film, with SUN COME UP, which was produced through WMM's Production Assistance (PA) Program. Kudos also to Tracie Holder, WMM Production Assistance Program Consultant, who served as a Consulting Producer for the film.
For the past four years, films from the WMM PA Program have been part of the Academy Awards in Best Documentary categories: FREEHELD, 2008 winner in Short Subject; NERAKHOON, 2009 nominee in Feature; WHICH WAY HOME, 2010 nominee in Feature; and now 2011 nominee SUN COME UP in Short Subject.
SUN COME UP is a lyrical documentary that follows the relocation of the first indigenous culture to lose their ancestral land to climate change – the Carteret Islanders, a community of 3,000 people living on a chain of low-lying islands in the South Pacific Ocean. This is a story about the human face of climate change and a people faced with the loss of a land in which their identity rests.
The film has already received accolades at several festivals, including a world premiere at Full Frame, winner of the Golden Cine at the Montana Cine International Film Festival, and a theatrical run at IFC Center, during IDA DocuWeeks.
Congratulations also go to other women who have been nominated:
Lisa Cholodenko (former WMM staff!), Best Screenplay, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
Anne Rosellini, Best Adapted Screenplay, WINTER'S BONE
Sara Nesson, Best Documentary, Short Subject, POSTER GIRL
Karen Goodman, Best Documentary, Short Subject, STRANGERS NO MORE
Ruby Yang, Best Documentary, Short Subject, THE WARRIORS OF QUIGANG
Trish Adlesic, Best Documentary, GASLAND
Audrey Marrs, Best Documentary, INSIDE JOB
Lucy Walker, Best Documentary, WASTE LAND
Emma Thomas (Producer), Best Picture, INCEPTION
Celine Rattray (Producer), Best Picture, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
Darla K. Anderson (Producer), Best Picture, TOY STORY 3
Alix Madigan-Yorkin and Anne Rosellini (Producers), Best Picture, WINTER'S BONE