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Eating Up Easter: Human Rights Film Festival Berlin

Eating Up Easter Showing at 7:00 pm

In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people who risk losing everything to the globalizing effects of tourism. The film follows four islanders, descendants of the ancient statue builders, who are working to tackle the consequences of their rapidly developing home. One leads recycling efforts to reduce trash, others use music to reunite their divided community while the fourth embraces the advantages of building new businesses.  These stories intertwine to reveal the complexities of development and the contradictions within us all as we are faced with hard choices about our planet’s future.

Eating Up Easter: Human Rights Film Festival Berlin

Eating Up Easter Screening at 9:00 pm 9/21 and 9:00 am 9/25

In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people who risk losing everything to the globalizing effects of tourism. The film follows four islanders, descendants of the ancient statue builders, who are working to tackle the consequences of their rapidly developing home. One leads recycling efforts to reduce trash, others use music to reunite their divided community while the fourth embraces the advantages of building new businesses.  These stories intertwine to reveal the complexities of development and the contradictions within us all as we are faced with hard choices about our planet’s future.

Eating Up Easter: Take One Action Film Festival

Eating Up Easter Screening and Discussion at Take One Action Film Festival

In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapa Nui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu crafts a global wake-up call from the remote Pacific.

With mass tourism and rapid development re-shaping their island, the Rapa Nui people, descendants of the statue builders, are seeking to recycle ancient traditions in a bid for environmental sustainability.

Despite its remote setting, the film captures familiar struggles, whether with environmental threats posed by growing infrastructure, waste management and plastic pollution, or with richly diverse cultural traditions being commodified and hollowed out. But at the heart of Eating up Easter lies a rousing tribute to the role of community engagement, arts and creativity in driving positive social change.

Join us after the film for inspiring conversations and opportunities for effective, personal action. We will explore creative and community responses to environmental challenges with guests including a representative from SHRUB Coop.

Eating Up Easter at Global Peace Film Fest

Orlando, Florida Film Festival to screen Eating Up Easter

In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people who risk losing everything to the globalizing effects of tourism. The film follows four islanders, descendants of the ancient statue builders, who are working to tackle the consequences of their rapidly developing home. One leads recycling efforts to reduce trash, others use music to reunite their divided community while the fourth embraces the advantages of building new businesses.  These stories intertwine to reveal the complexities of development and the contradictions within us all as we are faced with hard choices about our planet’s future.

Eating Up Easter at Global Peace Film Fest

Orlando, Florida Film Festival to screen Eating Up Easter

In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people who risk losing everything to the globalizing effects of tourism. The film follows four islanders, descendants of the ancient statue builders, who are working to tackle the consequences of their rapidly developing home. One leads recycling efforts to reduce trash, others use music to reunite their divided community while the fourth embraces the advantages of building new businesses.  These stories intertwine to reveal the complexities of development and the contradictions within us all as we are faced with hard choices about our planet’s future.

Eating Up Easter gana el premio a la Mejor Sostenibilidad en el Festival Portugués de Cine de Surf

2 de agosto de 2019 – MALIBU, California, EE. UU. – Plastic Oceans International, la organización sin fines de lucro que trabaja para terminar con la contaminación por plástico global, anunció hoy que la película documental, Eating Up Easter, presentada por Plastic Oceans; producida y dirigida por Sergio M. Rapu; producida y escrita por Elena Rapu; junto a Kartemquin Films y Pacific Islanders in Communications, ganaron el premio al Mejor Pelicula de Sostenibilidad del Festival de Cine de Surf de Portugal.

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Eating Up Easter wins Best Sustainability award at Portuguese Surf Film Festival

August 2, 2019 – MALIBU, Calif., U.S. – Plastic Oceans International, the nonprofit organization working to end global plastic pollution, today announced that the documentary film, Eating Up Easter—presented by Plastic Oceans; producer and director, Sergio M. Rapu; producer and writer, Elena Rapu; Kartemquin Films and Pacific Islanders in Communications—won the Portuguese Surf Film Festival Best Sustainability award.

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Eating Up Easter at CAAMFest

Director Sergio M. Rapu to Attend.

Native Rapa Nui (known as Easter Island to outsiders) filmmaker Sergio Mata‘u Rapu’s deeply personal documentary is assembled as a message in a bottle to his young son, Koa, whose birth graces the film’s opening moments. Koa means joy, but is also the name of the tree their Polynesian ancestors used to build canoes and sail across the Pacific. Rapa Nui was likely the last Pacific island settled by Polynesians and is best known for its iconic mo‘ai, the enormous, awe-inspiring, large-headed statues embodying the spiritual power of ancient chieftains. Those mo‘ai have witnessed enormous change and trauma: first contacts with outsiders, colonization, and now, increasingly, ecological damage from a booming tourist economy and trash floating onshore from the massive Pacific garbage gyre.

Rapu follows stalwart indigenous defenders of the island’s environment and culture as they seek to save their precious home with leadership, responsible development, and a sustainably built music school. Theirs is an uphill battle — but under the mo‘ai’s approving gaze, they create hope. — Ravi Chandra

Expected attendee: Sergio M. Rapu (Director/Producer) 

Eating Up Easter at MSPIFF (Encore Screening)

Best in Fest Encore Screening of Eating Up Easter

Twin Cities filmmaker Sergio M. Rapu sets his gaze on his homeland in Eating Up Easter, where the Rapanui community faces an environmental collapse due to overwhelming tourism and industrial progress. Rapu himself serves as a narrator, describing to his son the depth of Easter Island’s plight and the dilemma of the people who live there.

Struggling to keep up with a land that refuses to slow down, the film features other locals making the best of an impossible situation: an ecologist who attempts to temper the rising waste crisis that affects both the island and the shores that surround it, a pair of musicians trying to establish a free music school that may help to preserve cultural traditions, and finally, Rapu’s father, the island’s former Governor, who is caught between responsibility to generations of culture and the ever-growing demands of industry.

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY

Filmmaker Sergio M. Rapu is originally from Easter Island, now lives in the Twin Cities, and has worked in the industry for nearly two decades. Along with Eating Up Easter, he has worked for several television programs such as the History Channel, The Travel Channel and National Geographic.

Eating Up Easter at Friends of the Earth Malta

Eating Up Easter Screening and Discussion

The iconic statues and sensationalized “mysteries” of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) have drawn the interest of the world for centuries, attracting curious visitors to its shores. Today, this tiny, barren island is experiencing an economic boon as tourism skyrockets. Yet the indigenous culture and the island’s fragile environment are suffering. EATING UP EASTER, directed by native Rapanui filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu, explores the dilemma his people are facing. Crafted as a story passed down to his newborn son, Sergio intertwines the authentic history of the island with the stories of four islanders. In their own voices, these Rapanui reveal the reality of modern life and the actions they are taking to preserve their culture and environment amidst rapid development.  EATING UP EASTER reveals and suggests ways forward in tackling the universal complexities of balancing growth and sustainability faced by local communities worldwide.

The film screening will be followed with a panel discussion. Joining us on the day will be:

DR. MARIE BRIGULIO — DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF MALTA

Marie is a resident academic at the University of Malta (Department of Economics), lecturing in Environmental Economics, Behavioural Economics and Social Marketing. She holds a PhD in Economics (Stirling), a MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics (London, Distinction), and a BA Honours in Economics (Malta, 1st Class). Her main research interests include market failure and the economics of altruistic behaviour, voluntary environmental cooperation, wellbeing and cultural participation, on which topics she has published extensively.Marie is currently the University of Malta’s Principal Investigator on a number of research projects including the R2pi project on the Circular Economy (funded by Horizon 2020), and in various collaborative research projects with public sector organisations. She also represents the Department of Economics on FEMA’s Doctoral Committee and Research Committee. She sits on the University of Malta’s Research Ethics Committee and the Committee for Sustainability.

STEPHAN MICALLEF — DIRECTORATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE, MESDC

Stephan is a Manager Directorate for the Environment and Climate Change within the Ministry for Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change. The Directorate also plays a monitoring role in the implementation of environment and climate related strategies and action plans including that related to Waste.

PROF. GODFREY BALDACCHINO  — DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MALTA

Godfrey Baldacchino is Professor of Sociology at the University of Malta and its Pro Rector for International Development & Quality Assurance since 2016. His expertise includes island studies and sub-national jurisdictions (like Isla de Pascua / Rapanui / Easter Island).

ANDREW SCHEMBRI — ŻIBEL

Żibel is an environmental NGO that focuses on clean ups in Malta.

The screening is free but places are limited. Submit in the form below to reserve your seat. 

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Plastic Oceans International is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, founded and existing under the laws of California (Federal Tax ID #81-3778043). We are dedicated to ending plastic pollution and fostering sustainable communities worldwide.

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