June 30, 2016
7-8pm
This Changes Everything — Film Screening
WEBSITE: http://thefilm.thischangeseverything.org/
About the film:
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.
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.
“A film that brings our peril into focus and what we might learn from despair.”
-Alice Walker, author and activist
“Purposely unsettling… Ultimately encouraging”
– Variety Magazine
“If you care about justice you must see this.”
Kumi Naidoo, Former Director at Greenpeace International
“Genuinely moving”
-Entertainment Weekly
“The realization that a solution is possible, well, that changes everything”
– Globe & Mail
“Klein and Lewis paint a picture of a post-fossil-fueled, post-capitalist future that seems not only within reach, but like a place where we actually want to live”
– YES Magazine
“Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors — namely, a modicum of hope for the future”
– LA Times
