This Changes Everything / Film Screening
Director: Avi Lewis / Running time: 1h 29m
Director: Avi Lewis / Running time: 1h 29m
JAN 21, 2016 / 7:30 PM
Faculty panel: Ahalya Satkunaratnam, John Reid-Hresko, Mai Yasue, and Ian Picketts
Quest University Canada, MPR
$10 Suggested DonationWhat 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. 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. 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.
After the film, there will be a discussion with Quest faculty members Mai Yasue, Ian Picketts, John Reid-Hresko and Ahalya Satkunaratnam about the film and what can be done to limit climate change in collaboration with efforts for social justice and frontline communities.
Faculty panel: Ahalya Satkunaratnam, John Reid-Hresko, Mai Yasue, and Ian Picketts
Quest University Canada, MPR
$10 Suggested DonationWhat 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. 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. 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.
After the film, there will be a discussion with Quest faculty members Mai Yasue, Ian Picketts, John Reid-Hresko and Ahalya Satkunaratnam about the film and what can be done to limit climate change in collaboration with efforts for social justice and frontline communities.