Reel Green™ presents
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
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This powerful documentary, inspired by the bestselling non-fiction book “This Changes Everything” by Naomi Klein, was filmed over 211 days in nine countries across five continents over four years.
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THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING is the first of Reel Green™’s Green Screenings for 2025. Directed by Avi Lewis (THE TAKE) and narrated by Naomi Klein, it presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines of climate change, 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.
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, the film 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.
“Purposely unsettling… Ultimately encouraging” (Variety Magazine)
“If you care about justice you must see this.” (Kumi Naidoo, Former Director at Greenpeace International)
“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)
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Wednesday, May 7
Doors 5:30 pm | Movie 6:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Tickets only $5!
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The first 100 people to arrive will receive a free medium popcorn.
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Tickets at www.riotheatretickets.ca
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THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING (Avi Lewis, 2015 / 89 mins / PG) A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
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