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"This is not a sad climate film. It’s a story about people who are making change happen."
-director Avi Lewis
What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world?
Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over
four years, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING is an epic attempt to re-imagine the
vast challenge of climate change.
The film's length is approximately 1h 30m. The screening will be followed by a discussion featuring
Bryan Parras of
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Service, earth scientist and eco-chaplain-in-training
Stephanie Thomas,
and others. Please invite your friends; if you or anyone you know would
like to talk about justice issues they're passionate about and how
those relate to climate change, you are welcome to participate!
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international
non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven
powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s
Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South
India to Beijing and beyond.
Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration,
connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it
there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and
exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate
change to transform our failed economic system into something radically
better.
Over the course of 90 minutes, viewers will meet…
Crystal, a young indigenous leader in Tar Sands country, as she fights
for access to a restricted military base in search of answers about an
environmental disaster in progress.
Mike and Alexis, a Montana goat ranching couple who see their dreams
coated in oil from a broken pipeline. They respond by organizing against
fossil fuel extraction in their beloved Powder River Basin, and forming
a new alliance with the Northern Cheyenne tribe to bring solar power to
the nearby reservation.
Melachrini, a housewife in Northern Greece where economic crisis is
being used to justify mining and drilling projects that threaten the
mountains, seas, and tourism economy. Against the backdrop of Greece in
crisis, a powerful social movement rises.
Jyothi, a matriarch in Andhra Pradesh, India who sings sweetly and
battles fiercely along with her fellow villagers, fighting a proposed
coal-fired power plant that will destroy a life-giving wetland. In the
course of this struggle, they help ignite a nationwide movement.
The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography in This
Changes Everything provides an epic canvas for this exploration of the
greatest challenge of our time. Unlike many works about the climate
crisis, this is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action:
it aims to empower. Provocative, compelling, and accessible to even the
most climate-fatigued viewers, This Changes Everything will leave you
refreshed and inspired, reflecting on the ties between us, the kind of
lives we really want, and why the climate crisis is at the centre of it
all.
Will this film change everything? Absolutely not. But you could, by answering its call to action.
