Save Tuvalu, Save The World can now be viewed publicly on YouTube.
In tiny, idyllic Tuvalu, there are no climate deniers. It's impossible to deny what's happening before your very eyes.
Sea water is pushing up through the land, destroying traditional crops and making the water unfit to drink. High tides are inundating the country, flooding the main island's only airport, cutting Tuvalu off from the world.
"Tuvalu is ground zero for the global climate crisis," said Stephen Long, filmmaker and Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor at The Australia Institute.
"No nation is more vulnerable than this small Pacific country."
Save Tuvalu, Save The World looks at climate change through the eyes of those experiencing the consequences of climate change in their everyday lives, including young climate campaigner Gitty Yee, who visited Australia last week for three sold-out preview screenings of the documentary.
"I see myself as a climate warrior," Gitty says.
"I fight for my country, and I fight for what we believe in. I fight for our right to live, our right to prosper, for our future generations."
Australia has pledged to fund adaptation and mitigation work in Tuvalu and to offer its citizens a path to migration under an agreement known as the Falepili Union. But Tuvaluans believe that's not good enough. They want the world to stop burning the fossil fuels which drive the rising temperatures and sea levels. They want Australia to phase out exports of coal and gas that feed the fossil fuel cycle.
Australia likes to present itself as part of the Pacific family - in economic terms, the big brother.
"My message to Australia is that if Australia wants to be a good big brother, as they say they are to the Pacific, they should really stop expanding and exporting fossil fuels," Gitty says.
"How would you feel if a country that is meant to help to protect is slowly destroying you, little by little? We feel devastated, of course, because this is our home and this is the reality that we are facing."
