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Benefit film showing of "This Changes Everything" to benefit Preserve Rural Sonoma County
Film SynopsisFilmed 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 climatechange.Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything,the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, fromMontana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of SouthIndia to Beijing and beyond.Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbonin the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Kleinbuilds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existentialcrisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into somethingradically better.Over the course of 90 minutes, viewers will meet…• Crystal, a young indigenous leader in Tar Sands country, asshe fights for access to a restricted military base in search ofanswers about an environmental disaster in progress.• Mike and Alexis, a Montana goat ranching couple who see their dreams coatedin oil from a broken pipeline. They respond by organizing against fossil fuelextraction in their beloved Powder River Basin, and forming a new alliance withthe Northern Cheyenne tribe to bring solar power to the nearby reservation.• Melachrini, a housewife in Northern Greece where economic crisisis being used to justify mining and drilling projects that threatenthe mountains, seas, and tourism economy. Against the backdropof Greece in crisis, a powerful social movement rises.• Jyothi, a matriarch in Andhra Pradesh, India who sings sweetly andbattles fiercely along with her fellow villagers, fighting a proposedcoal-fired power plant that will destroy a life-giving wetland. In thecourse of this struggle, they help ignite a nationwide movement.The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography in This ChangesEverything provides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge ofour time. Unlike many works about the climate crisis, this is not a film that tries toscare the audience into action: it aims to empower. Provocative, compelling, andaccessible to even the most climate-fatigued viewers, This Changes Everything willleave you refreshed and inspired, reflecting on the ties between us, the kind of liveswe 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 callto action.

10-20-2015

Benefit film showing of "This Changes Everything" to benefit Preserve Rural Sonoma County

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