People's Republic of Mallacoota (2022)

Armageddon arrived in Mallacoota on New Year's Eve 2019. The iconic images of its residents and tourists huddled on the foreshore as a 200km-long fire front bore down upon them made the remote Victorian coastal community the international face of environmental catastrophe. As the Royal Australian Navy evacuated thousands of people trapped on Mallacoota's beaches, the whole world witnessed Australia's first climate-change refugees. People's Republic of Mallacoota follows an ensemble cast of resolute, charismatic, and forthright regional Australians as they fight to rebuild their lives, rehabilitate their environment, and re-invent their community. And they're in a race against a time to make sure the horrors of the last bushfire season never happen again.