This Changes Everything

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This Changes Everything is a documentary directed by Avi Lewis (The Take). It is based on his wife Naomi Klein’s book of the same name.

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. 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.

“While my friends and family know that once I get going, it can be hard to shut me up,” Lewis explains, “most of my professional life has been spent listening. And listening to the people in this film was what changed everything for me. In the fierce dignity and moral clarity of communities fighting destructive fossil fuel projects, in the drama of their struggles, I saw that a climate film doesn’t have to be about polar bears.”

Lewis and Klein will be participating in a Q&A at the October 9 screening at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox.

This Changes Everything is rated PG.