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Too Much Fun in Tuvalu
Some filmmakers have all the fun. In this article in the Sydney Morning Herald, filmmaker Antony Balmain heads to the island nation of Tuvalu to film a documentary about the nation and its troubles. Expecting a Polynesian paradise (as well as morbidly obese people with a thrifty gene), he discovered a friendly, inviting nation surprisingly bereft of fast-food outlets and in a state of self-denial about the threats of global warming.
But as this article points out, life is both complex and simple in these distant islands, and while the filmmaker finds himself taken by them, he also discovers that, like most places so far off, the travails of travel require that you check your expectations at the door.
Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Oceania
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bill Reals Mar 9th 2006 12:29PM
I worked for dotTV, the people who paid like $10million for the rights to the ".tv" internet domain extension, for 3 weeks during the dotboom. When I was there, the executives went to Tuvalu, to deliever the money, and would call back everyday on the sat phone. I remember them describing that they couldn't go on the beach when they realized it was the island's toliets.
Sex lives of cannibals is a great book that dispells the rumour of a polynesian paradise. It's also very funny to read.
http://www.gadling.com/2004/12/20/book-review-sex-lives-of-cannibals/