After bringing democracy to his country, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, takes up the fight to keep his homeland from disappearing under the sea.... (Full plot summary below)
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After bringing democracy to his country, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, takes up the fight to keep his homeland from disappearing under the sea.
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| TV GuideNathan SouthernOne only hopes that the documentary will help advance Nasheed's mission and inspire others to join arms out of shared ecological concern. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirNasheed has traveled the world describing the Maldives as the Poland of global warming - meaning, of course, Poland in 1939. If his country cannot be saved from rising sea levels, he maintains, then there may be no saving Tokyo or Mumbai or New Orleans or New York. |
| Hollywood & FineMarshall FineRecent events give the documentary The Island President both an urgency and a poignancy. |
| Film-Forward.comNora Lee Mandel[M]akes climate change dramatic, political, personal, and the right stuff of leadership. . . The film would seem hagiographic if his biography weren't so stirring. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneAlison GangShenk's tight storytelling makes for a gripping film that delivers the ugly, at times ennobling, truth. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan"The Island President"is heartening and unsettling by turns. |
| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonShenk gets almost unfettered acccess to Nasheed, who is refreshingly honest about the tactics he is employing to get other countries onside |
| Boxoffice MagazinePhil ContrinoA gripping new documentary that's essential viewing for anybody who believes that the impact of global warming is tomorrow's problem. |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonShenk draws on archive material to chronicle Nasheed's courageous battle against longtime dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, but it's the unprecedented access he has to his subject that makes this movie so revealing and compelling. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter V. Addiego"The Island President" is a mostly compelling documentary about that rarest of breeds, an appealing politician. |
