The DOXA Documentary Film Festival is bringing an award-winning documentary to Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
The festival's Motion Picture Film Series continues at the Shadbolt on Monday, March 12, with a 7 p.m. screening in the Studio Theatre.
It features the Vancouver premiere of Jon Shenk's The Island President, which won the People's Choice Award for Best Documentary at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film chronicles the story of Mohamed Nasheed, the first ever freely elected president of the Maldives - an island nation that is slowly being eaten away by the rising waters of the Indian Ocean, threatening the very existence of the Maldives.
If the oceans continue to rise, the Maldives will become one of the first countries in the world to succumb to climate change - and Nasheed rose to lead the battle against climate change by making the country completely carbon-neutral.
Shenk follows Nasheed's rise to power - taking over from a nearly 30-year dictatorship - and his struggle to take his country's battle for survival to the world stage at the 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen.
After the documentary was filmed, however, Nasheed faced yet more struggles - he was forced to resign from office on Feb. 7 this year during a military coup.
DOXA's presentation of the film will be its first screening in Vancouver. For more information, call 604-646-3200 or see www.doxafestival.ca.
Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at www.shadboltcentre.com or by calling the box office at 604-205-3000.
