The Solar Nation of Tokelau: An adventure in documentary making

The Solar Nation of Tokelau: An adventure in documentary making

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Commentary: The Tokelau solar project first came to the attention of this filmmaker at a Pacific Energy Summit in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2013.Three remote islands in the Pacific becoming the first 100 percent solar-powered nation on earth and setting an example for the complete adaptation of sustainable energy sounded like a story too good to be overlooked by mainstream news media.However, research demonstrated that this was Maternity-Nursing Tops indeed widely ignored.So the author set about his usual practice of pitching the idea to his colleagues at German Television.

The fact that he had already made a short documentary about Tokelau in 2006 (ARTE TV Reportage: Independence Referendum in Tokelau) and was thus familiar with the territory and its people, which worked Massage Candle in his favour.But funding proved to be a difficult challenge because the logistics of the project demanded a longer than usual shooting schedule and crew time.In the end, a solution was found by accessing additional funding and negotiating a bulk deal with the crew to make The Solar Nation of Tokelau (2014).