International Festival of Contemporary Theatre
Programme
This Changes Everything
12 November 15.00, Kaņepes Kultūras centrs | Free entrance
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.
Makers
Avi Lewis is a filmmaker and TV host with a 25 year history of pushing the boundaries of mainstream media. He is the director of the feature documentary This Changes Everything, inspired by the bestselling book by Naomi Klein. His first documentary, The Take (2004), followed Argentina’s legendary movement of worker-run businesses. It premiered at the Venice Biennale and was released theatrically around the world. He co-created and hosted both Al Jazeera English Television’s acclaimed documentary series Fault Lines, and the groundbreaking The Big Picture on CBC Television.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestsellers, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). Her books have been translated into over 30 languages. In 2004, Naomi Klein wrote The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories co-produced with director Avi Lewis. Naomi Klein is a columnist for The Nation magazine and the Guardian and a contributing editor at Harper’s magazine. She is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and sits on the board of directors for 350.org, the global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis.
Credits
Director: Avi Lewis
Screenplay: Naomi Klein
Cinematography: Mark Ó Fearghail
Editing: Nick Hector, Mary Lampson
Music: David Wall, Adam White
Participants: Naomi Klein, Crystal Lameman, Alexis Bonogofsky, Mike Scott, Vanessa Braided Hair, Henry Red Cloud, Mary Christianou, Sunita Narain, Aningi Jyothi, Chee Yoke Ling, Li Bo, Lliam Hildebrand, Nathan Myrhrvold, David Collyer, Joseph Bast
Producer: Avi Lewis, Joslyn Barnes, Anadil Hossain
Production Co.: The Message Productions, LLC, Klein Lewis Productions, Louverture Films
Distributor: FILMBUFF
12
November
15.00
Free entrance
