THE ISLAND PRESIDENT

“THE ISLAND PRESIDENT” now aailable in the Maldives by exclusive internet download



Featuring music by Radiohead

Winner – Audience Award, 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Winner - Hilton Worldwide Lifestay Sustainability Award, Sundance Institute



“Critic’s Pick. Wonderfully vivid cinematic portraiture. A riveting, visually dazzling film.”
– Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

“Extraordinary access. Buoyant and spirited.”
– A.O. Scott, The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO - June 19, 2012 – AfterImage Public Media presents the Maldives internet premiere of THE ISLAND PRESIDENT, available today. Visit http://theislandpresident.com/watch-online/ to rent this award-winning film hailed by critics and environmental journalists worldwide, and set to the mesmerizing music of Radiohead.
THE ISLAND PRESIDENT is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced – the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. With stunning transparency and intimacy, the film reveals his battle with the climate change that threatens to destroy his nation. His candid, intelligent, often humorous speeches and asides make for a totally refreshing experience in political activism as he builds a democracy that replaces decades of oppression and corruption that prevailed before his election. But as he pointedly notes: “It won’t be any good to have a democracy if we don’t have a country.” The Indian Ocean is rising, and if carbon emissions continue at their present levels or if they climb, the Maldives will definitely disappear. Filmmaker Jon Shenk (The Lost Boys of Sudan) gives an honest, no-holds-barred portrait of a man leading the charge to save his 3000-year-old nation — and maybe the rest of us too.

Hailed as a visionary by Time and Newsweek, and named an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically-elected president of the Maldives, was back in the news on February 7 when he was forced to resign under duress in a coup d’état orchestrated by the military and forces loyal to the former dictator. In light of this dramatic turn of events, the exclusive Maldives premiere of THE ISLAND PRESIDENT could not be more timely.

THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (U.S., 2011, 101 min.) Directed by Jon Shenk. Produced by Richard Berge and Bonni Cohen. Executive Producer: Jon Else. Editor: Pedro Kos. Sound Recordist: Lincoln Else. Co-Producer: Spencer Adler. Music by Radiohead and Stars of the Lid.


ABOUT AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA

AfterImage Public Media is a San Francisco, California-based non-profit company that works with filmmakers who have a long and successful history of producing documentary films for wide theatrical and television distribution. Since 1998, the production team has produced twelve feature-length documentaries ranging in subject from refugee resettlement to World War II history to international political crises, including the Independent Spirit Award-winning Lost Boys of Sudan, Inside Guantanamo, The Rape Of Europa, Democracy Afghan Style, and Eye Of The Storm: A Portrait Of Kofi Annan. Funding partners for The Island President include the Ford Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, the Compton Foundation, the Sundance Documentary Fund, and the Independent Television Service.
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Media contact:
Richard Berge, Producer
AfterImage Public Media

richard@actualfilms.net
+1 415 575 9998

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