
Independent Lens
Everything Wrong and Nowhere To Go
A filmmaker in Los Angeles turns the camera on herself to go in search of a cure for her crippling climate anxiety in a deeply personal documentary about therapy and existential threat.
Threatened by climate change and globalization, remote Easter Island provides a wake-up call for the rest of the world.
Born on Easter Island, the most remote island in the Pacific, at a time when it had very little contact with the outside world. There, surrounded by a simple life within a rich cultural heritage, he gained an appreciation for the power of story to build community and compassion between people. Years later his family moved to the US and Sergio studied TV… Show more
An anthropologist and independent documentary filmmaker. She received her MA in anthropology from SUNY Binghamton, specializing in the Pacific. In partnership with her filmmaker husband, she completed her first feature length film, Eating Up Easter, in 2018, which details the challenges Easter Islanders are facing on their rapidly developing… Show more
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More than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues, Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native Rapanui grapple with a booming tourism trade that brings in money - and waste - and a changing climate that threatens the fragile ecology on the island. In Eating Up Easter, Rapanui filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu and producer Elena Rapu introduce viewers to artists, ecologists, and developers who balance their strong cultural heritage with modern-day challenges. Though it is the most remote inhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, Rapa Nui reflects the clash between growth and sustainability faced by communities worldwide.
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