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When the Indian Ocean Tsunami hit in December 2004 over 250,000 people were killed throughout Asia, but on one small island, just 40km from the epicentre of the earthquake, almost the entire population survived, thanks to the people's inherited knowledge of tsunamis, handed down from each generation to the next. The 26th December 2004 looked like just another normal day on Simeulue. Eleven-year-old Anto Suryanto and his friends were on the beach playing football when the island was hit by a major earthquake. Anto tells his story of how traditional knowledge saved his life.
Produced for UNISDR by Flycatcher Films
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Tilly Smith, an eleven-year-old schoolgirl was on holiday in Thailand with her family when the tsunami hit in December 2004. She recognized the signs of the receding sea and warned her parents of the impending tsunami, which led to hotel guests being rapidly cleared from the beach and saved the life of dozens of people. Tilly's story highlights the critical importance of basic education in preventing the tragic impacts of natural disasters.
Produced for UNISDR by Flycatcher Films
To view film go to:
http://www.unisdr.org/eng/media-room/mr-videos.htm
Every year more than 200 million people are affected by drought, floods, cyclones, earthquakes, wildfires and other disasters associated with natural hazards. Growing populations, environmental degradation and global warming are making the impacts worse, creating greater disasters and making the need to find better ways to protect people more urgent. In January 2005, a month after the Indian Ocean tsunami, the worlds' 168 governments adopted a ten-year plan to make the world planet safer from future disasters. The Hyogo Framework for Action sets out ways to make nations and communities more resilient, and better able to cope with such continuous setbacks to their development.At its heart is collaboration: disasters affect everyone, and are therefore everybody's business. Disaster reduction is part of every day’s decisions- choices on how we do agriculture, build health centres, educate our children, plan our cities- can either makes us more vulnerable or more resilient.
Produced for UNISDR by Flycatcher Films
To view film go to:
http://www.unisdr.org/eng/media-room/mr-videos.htm
Madagascar is a land of extremes: extreme beauty, extreme biodiversity, but also extreme poverty and above all extreme weather. Every year the population is subjected to a series of cyclones, and in the south of the country there are long and frequent periods of drought. Despite the violence of these storms, the people of Madagascar have actually suffered in 2007 fewer losses due to prevention measures spearheaded by the Government and the National Platform on Disaster Reduction.
One of the key roles of the National Platform is to help reduce the impact of natural hazards and better prepare populations against disasters. The film describes how the National platform works in Madagascar and what is its major role before, during and after disasters.
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Over the last two decades, an average of 200 million people have been affected by disasters every year. With the impacts of climate change now being felt around the world, the next generation will have to deal with increasing numbers of severe disasters. Will they know what to do to when the next disaster strikes?
Earth Report visits disaster hotspots in South East Asia, Central Asia and the Caribbean, to see how education, both in the classroom and in the community, can make the difference between life & death.
Transmission schedules (all times GMT) – Disaster Class has been broadcast on BBC World on Saturday 18 November at 21:30; Sunday 19 November at 11:30, & Monday 20 November 02:30 (Not Asia Pacific or South Asia).
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When the Asian Tsunami struck in December 2004, over 200,000 people were killed and 1.5 million were left homeless.
Earth Report, with the support of ISDR, traveled to three of the worst affected countries (Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka) to examine the recovery process. With so much funding flowing in to the region, are these countries re-building better than before or are they making the same old mistakes?
Transmission schedules (all times GMT) – After the wave has been broadcast on BBC World on Saturday 28 October at 08:30, 13:30 (not Europe), 20:30 and Monday 01:30 (Not Asia Pacific or Southern Africa)
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The scale of the death and destruction brought by the Tsunami in Asia has shocked the world. Few disasters of this magnitude have ever been recorded. Though earthquakes are difficult to predict, questions are being asked. How many lives could have been saved if people had been more aware and better prepared?
Two episodes of Earth Reports assess what is being learned from the disasters that affect the lives of some 200 million people every year. And we find that even in the poorest nations, the loss of life and damage can often be reduced by modest investment in early warnings and public education
Earth report visits the city of Goma from Congo, Cuba and Bangladesh.
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In the second episode, Earth report visits Japan, Iran and the French alps.
7 x 3 mins vignettes for UNEP's Champions of the Earth Awards, screened on CNN in May and possibly due to be screened on BBC World in the Autumn.
The awards recognise individuals' lifelong contributions to the environment. Flycatcher's team filmed all seven pieces for TVE /UNEP in seven different locations around the world: Singapore, Brazil, Iran, Cuba, New York, Washington & LA. Winners included Mikhail Gorbachev, former head of the Soviet Union and now President of Green Cross International.
6 min launch film and Video News Release about Africa's environment problems and opportunities, highlighted in the latest Africa Environment Outlook Report released in 27th June in Nairobi. Flycacther's team interviewed Achim Steiner, the new Executive Director of UNEP, and the president of AMCEN at the lastest conference in Brazaville in Republic of Congo. The report emphasises Africa's vast natural wealth and the potential for using it to help alleviate the continent's poverty problems, if it can be managed sustainably.
7 minute film for the the Third World Urban Forum in Vancouver about the problems faced by slum-dwellers, and possible solutions. The film features a unique on-line event called the Jam in which 39,000 people from 158 countries took part in a three day discussion on the problems of our cities. Feedback from the various forums is forwarded to policy makers to help form concrete solutions for a way forward.
When the Indian Ocean Tsunami hit on 26th December 2004, over 250,000 people were killed, but on one tiny island in Indonesia almost the entire population survived thanks to inherited knowledge about tsunamis.
Despite being only 40 km from the epicentre of the earthquake, only one person out of a population of 83,000 died. The people survived by running to the hills: in the islands folklore tsunami's are known as "Smong". According to tradition, each generation must teach the next that if an earthquake comes, they should go to the beach and check the tide: if it is going out quickly, then it means Smong is coming and they must all run to the hills.
Most of the island's buffalo population also survived by obeying their natural instincts to run to higher ground.
This five minute film tells the extraordinary story of British schoolgirl Tilly Smith, whose quick-thinking saved up to a hundred lives in the Indian Ocean Tsunami.
Tilly was on holiday with her family in Phuket in Thailand when she saw the tide quickly go and out and strange frothing and bubbling on the surface of the sea. Having studied tsunami's in school just two weeks earlier, she recognised the early warning signs and alerted her family. Though her mother didn't believe her at first, her father abd sister were quickly convinced and left the beach. The family alerted hotel security and other guests on the beach and everyone was evacuated. Some reports claim Tilly saved a hundred lives that day. In November 2005 Tilly was invited by the UN to New York to meet Bill Clinton, the UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Relief. At their meeting, Bill Clinton said Tilly's story demonstrates the power of education in reducing the impacts of natural disasters.
Tilly's family refused to be interviewed by commercial and national broadcasters, but agreed to work with Flycatcher Films for the UN on the understanding that the project was for educational use.
Every year more than 200 million people are affected by drought, floods, cyclones, earthquakes, wildfires and other natural disasters. Growing populations, environmental degradation and climate change
are making the impacts worse, and the need to find better ways to protect people more urgent.
In January 2005, A month after the Indian Ocean tsunami, the worlds' governments adopted a ten-year plan to make the world safer from future disasters.
The Hyogo Framework for Action sets out ways to make nations and communities become more resilient. At it's heart is collaboration: disasters affect everyone, and are therefore everybody's business.
In this film we visit Cuba, Indonesia, Japan and Kenya to see what communities are doing to protect themselves from the next wave of natural disasters.
This 8 min film looks at problems faced by teenage girls in Uganda: many miss out on school as they have to walk several miles to fetch water for their families or take care of sick relatives dying from AIDS and other diseases.
For those that do make it, the state of school sanitation systems is so appalling many wish they had stayed at home. Especially at the sensitive age of menstruation, many girls are too ashamed to use the facilities and leave school to go in the bush where they risk being raped or assaulted. As a result school attendance drops as many girls choose to stay at home, thus losing out on their chance of an education.
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