NZ climate change film wins top award

A New Zealand film has taken top award at the International Pacific Documentary Film Festival in French Polynesia.

There once was an island is a film by Briar March and Lyn Collie focusing on the first impacts of climate change seen on the remote pacific atoll of Takuu, in Papua New Guinea's Bougainville province.

Other prizes went to Hawaiian film Nono Newa, Australian film Bastardy and to the documentary about New Zealand's Topp Twins.

- NZ HERALD STAFF