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Directed by
  
Avi Lewis

Initial release
  
2015 (USA)

Narrated by
  
Naomi Klein

Editors
  
Nick Hector, Mary Lampson

6.6/10
IMDb


Cinematography
  
Mark Ellam

Director
  
Avi Lewis

Music director
  
David Wall, Adam White

Producers
  
Avi Lewis, Joslyn Barnes

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Produced by
  
Joslyn Barnes Avi Lewis

Based on
  
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein

Music by
  
David Wall Adam B. White

Edited by
  
Nick Hector Mary Lampson

Similar
  
Global warming movies, Documentaries

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This Changes Everything is a 2015 documentary film directed by Avi Lewis, a companion project of the book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein.

Contents

The film is a Canada-USA coproduction.

At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was first runner-up in the audience voting, within the documentary category.

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Synopsis

The film surveys a number of environmental activists around the world:

  • Alberta, Canada— Crystal, a young indigenous Beaver Lake Cree Nation leader in Athabasca oil sands country, fights for access to a restricted military base.
  • Powder River Basin, Montana— Mike and Alexis, a goat ranching couple impacted by oil from a broken pipeline. They organize against fossil fuel extraction and form an alliance with the Northern Cheyenne tribe to bring solar power to the nearby reservation.
  • Halkidiki, Greece— Melachrini, a housewife opposed to mining and drilling projects by Canadian corporation Eldorado Gold; against the backdrop of Greece in crisis,
  • Andhra Pradesh, India— Jyothi, a matriarch fighting a proposed coal-fired power plant that will destroy a wetland.
  • China— Smog-choked Beijing.
  • Box office

    The domestic box office total as of 8 October 2015 is $16,692

    Reviews

    The film received a mixed reaction from film critics. It garnered a 62% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 13 reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an mixed or average score of 59, based on seven reviews.

    Writing for the Los Angeles Times, critic Michael Rechtshaffen wrote: "They may not do enough to alter the climate change film landscape, but Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors — namely, a modicum of hope for the future."

    Writing for The Guardian, reviewer Henry Barnes stated that the "implication [of the film's opening confession from the author that she's 'always kind of hated films about climate change'] is that This Changes Everything is going to excite and inspire in a way that climate change documentaries have failed to before. It really doesn’t. It gives those of us in the affluent parts of the world more reason to feel bad and only a suggestion of what to do with that feeling."

    References

    This Changes Everything (film) Wikipedia


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