A CANADA-BASED Swiss film-maker has started a crowdfunding appeal to help finance the final leg of his two-year journey documenting the outgoing Kiribati President Anote Tong’s campaign to save his people from the negative effects of climate change.

Matthieu Rytz flies to Kiribati this week to film the final chapter of Anote’s Ark, which will premiere early this year but needs $50,000 to cover costs of the final shoot as well as translation, editing and post-production costs.

Mr Rytz says he hopes the film will show the world the effect of its inaction.

“They have their own lifestyle, their own culture and they are really, really linked to the, yeah, to the spirit of their land.

“And for me it is like to see them basically being the victim of something they never even contribute to gives me a very strong feeling actually of the need to tell the story,” he said.