High Tide Don't Hide

How do people keep talking about our genocide like it's nothing? Like we're nothing?

– Climate protester Aigagalefili Fepulea’i-Tapua’i

Everyone, everywhere has to see High Tide Don’t Hide. It is the best, most important film I have seen in years, gives me hope for the future, kia kaha rangatahi mā, you can make a difference.

– Auckland University of Technology lecturer Ella Henry on documentary High Tide Don't Lie, Doc Edge website

If you go into any high school most kids my age will tell you that climate change is their biggest worry.

– School Strike 4 Climate organiser Luke on his generational mindset

High Tide Don’t Hide is able to show the teenagers’ growing organisational skills and media nous, their self-determination and resilience in the face of head-in-the-sand-as-the-water-rises politicians such as Thames–Coromandel District Mayor Sandra Goudie and the condescending dismissiveness of Mike Hosking, and the emerging tensions within the movement itself as members’ understanding of the issues evolves.

– Reviewer Guy Somerset on the Newsroom website, 8 June 2021