English Subtitled Version of LA TERRE VUE DU CŒUR Presents

English subtitled version of LA TERRE VUE DU CŒUR presents

English subtitled version of LA TERRE VUE DU CŒUR

A film by IOLANDE CADRIN-ROSSIGNOL

With HUBERT REEVES FRÉDÉRIC LENOIR EDITH A. WIDDER MARIO CYR ÉLISE DESAULNIERS JÉRÔME DUPRAS MICHEL LABRECQUE KAREL MAYRAND KARINE PÉLOFFY EMMANUELLE POUYDEBAT STEFAN SOBKOWIAK ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

Production JANE LOSA FILMS

Distribution MAISON 4:3 T 438 387-1547

Contact MAISON 4:3 CHANTALE PAGÉ [email protected]

Media Relations ANGIE POWER [email protected] T 647 969-6025

EENDocumentary — 90 minutes

laterrevueducoeur S EarthSeenFromTheHeart.com 2 SYNOPSIS

Scientists, writers and artists join Hubert Reeves and

Frédéric Lenoir to sound a warning: biodiversity is under

threat. While some humans are responsible for this

crisis, others, in growing numbers, are tackling it head

on and forging solutions.

In this film dedicated to future generations, they remind

us that life in all its forms is a fascinating and touching

mystery ... and that it is up to us to preserve it!

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IOLANDE Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol, who holds degrees in music CADRIN-ROSSIGNOL and theatre, began her career as a radio and television host and writer. Turning to filmmaking, she focused Filmmaker first on urban ecology.

Her early directorial credits include documentary

and docu-drama series and features such as Un

pays, un goût, une manière, L’amour quotidien and

Thetford au milieu de notre vie, co-directed with

Fernand Dansereau, as well as La tradition de l’orgue

au Québec, Rencontre avec une femme remarquable:

Laure Gaudreault and Contes des mille et un jours:

Jean Desprez.

As a producer at the National Film Board, she helmed

some fifteen documentary, animation and experimental

films. Later, she co-directed the Canada-France mini-

series Sectes, mensonges et idéaux (Sects, Lies and

Ideals) with Frédéric Lenoir, and wrote and produced

documentaries including Bad Girls, the Vivre en solo

collection and Le corps qui parle.

More recently, while heading the Cinémathèque

québécoise, she conceived, wrote and co-directed the

documentary La revanche des jeux vidéos.

Earth: Seen from the Heart completes the trilogy

begun in 2003 with Hubert Reeves – Star Teller and

continued in 2010 with From the Big Bang to Life

(feature, mini-series, web platform). The goal of this

film is to share as widely as possible Hubert Reeves’s

major legacy for future generations: his fight for the

preservation of biodiversity. C5 ADRIN HUBERT REEVES “Astronomy and ecology can be seen

Canadian-French astrophysicist, as two sides of the same coin: our science communicator existence. Astronomy, by unveiling the a n d e c o l o g i s t history of the universe, tells us where we come from, how we came to be here today. Ecology, by making us aware of the threats to our future, aims to teach us how to stay here.”

— Hubert Reeves

Hubert Reeves was born in Montreal in 1932.

A graduate of Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, he holds a BSc in physics from Université de Montréal, an MSc from McGill University and a PhD from Cornell University.

From 1960 to 1964, he served as an advisor to NASA and taught physics at Université de Montréal. In 1965, he was appointed Director of Research at France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He continues to lecture in astronomy and cosmology at universities in France and Canada.

Hubert Reeves serves as honorary president of the non-profit association “Humanity and Biodiversity” and of the French national agency for biodiversity.

The author of many best-selling books (Poussières d’étoiles, The Universe Explained to My Grandchildren), he is also a passionate music lover, which has led him to perform as narrator in major musical works and occasionally conduct.

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FRÉDÉRIC LENOIR Philosopher, sociologist and religious historian Frédéric Lenoir holds a PhD from France’s School of French philosopher, sociologist, researcher and writer Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), where he is a research associate.

He is the co-founder, with Martine Roussel-Adam, of

Fondation SEVE, Savoir Être et Vivre Ensemble, whose

core mission is to train people to lead philosophy

and meditation workshops in schools. In May 2017, he

founded Ensemble pour les Animaux, an association

committed to bettering human-animal relations and

working with other associations to defend animal

welfare.

The author of more than forty publications (essays,

novels, fables, encyclopaedias) translated into some

twenty languages, he also writes plays, screenplays

and comic-style books.

fredericlenoir.com ©Frédéric Lenoir 8 LENOIR EDITH A. WIDDER Deep-sea explorer Edith A. Widder, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, combines expertise in oceanographic research Co-founder, CEO and Senior Scientist, Ocean Research & with technological innovation in her efforts to reverse the Conservation Association global trend of marine ecosystem degradation.

She holds a BSc in biology from Tufts University and an

MSc in Biochemistry and a PhD in Neurobiology from

University of California, Santa Barbara. Certified as a

Scientific Research Pilot for Atmospheric Diving Systems

in 1984, she is qualified to use the deep-diving suit Wasp as

well as the single-person untethered submersibles Deep

Rover and Deep Worker. She has made over 250 dives

in Johnson Sea Link submersibles, and her research

involving submersibles has been featured in produc-

tions for BBC, PBS, Discovery Channel and National

Geographic.

A specialist in bioluminescence, she is at the forefront in

helping design and invent new submersible instrumen-

tation and equipment that enable unobtrusive deep-sea

observation. Her innovations have served to film rare

sharks, jellyfish and crustaceans, discover a new species

of large squid and, in 2012, record the first-ever footage

of a giant squid (Architeuthis) in its natural habitat. In

2005, she established the non-profit Ocean Research &

Conservation Association, dedicated to the protection

and restoration of aquatic ecosystems and the species

they sustain through the development of innovative

technologies and science-based conservation action.

teamorca.org W9 IDDER M A R IO CY R World-renowned for his cold-water cinematography, Mario Cyr has worked on more than 150 productions Deep-sea explorer and cinematographer for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, BBC, The Walt Disney Company, NHK, France 2, TF1 and others.

Between 2001 and 2007, he participated in polar

expeditions aboard the Sedna as master diver and

underwater videographer. His images have earned

him an Emmy Award nomination for Ice Bear 3D,

the Palme d’Or at the Festival mondial d’Antibes for

Toothed Titans (National Geographic), and a César

for his work on Oceans (Disney). His pioneering feats

include filming walruses underwater (1991) and

capturing polar bears beneath the surface without

protective gear (2011).

Since 2001, he has exhibited his photographs and

given more than 500 talks on his specialty in Canada,

Europe and Asia. This year, he is sharing his knowl-

edge in an immersive event called “Mario Cyr –

Les yeux de la mer (The Eyes of the Sea),” slated

for twenty presentations across Quebec. Like a

“Spielberg of the deep,” he uses images to recount

his adventures and discoveries and the beauty of

the animal worlds he has explored. Nature appears

in all its splendour as a legacy to be preserved.

lesyeuxdelamer.com C10 YR ÉLISE DESAULNIERS Élise Desaulniers, Executive Director of the Montreal SPCA, is an independent researcher and the author of A u t h o r, b l o g g e r a n d Executive Director of Je mange avec ma tête (2011), Cash Cow (2013) and the Montreal SPCA Le défi végane 21 jours (2016).

In 2015, she won the grand prize for independent

journalism in Quebec (Opinion category) for a text on

feminism and anti-speciesism.

Her books have been translated into English, Italian,

Spanish and Catalan and adapted for France.

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ESAUL D11 JÉRÔME DUPRAS Jérôme Dupras is the bass player for Les Cowboys Fringants and chair of the band’s environmental Professor, Director, Ecological Economics Lab (ISFORT) and bassist protection foundation. for Les Cowboys Fringants

Concurrent with his musical career, he teaches in

the Department of Natural Sciences at Université du

Québec en Outaouais and conducts research at the

Institut des sciences de la forêt tempérée, where he

heads the Ecological Economics Lab. He holds a PhD

in geography from Université de Montréal and a

postdoctoral degree in biology from McGill University.

He co-founded the Green Belt Movement in 2012 and

is actively involved with many research centres and

environmental organizations.

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D12 UPRAS MICHEL LABRECQUE Michel Labrecque has been Curator and Head of scientific research and development at the Montreal Curator, Montreal Botanical Garden, and researcher Botanical Garden since 1997. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at

Université de Montréal.

As a specialist in ecophysiology, his research touches

on environmental issues and explores the adaptive

mechanisms of plants subjected to various types

of stress. For several years he has been working on

phytoremediation, studying the use of plants to

absorb toxic trace elements and degrade organic

contaminants. This work focuses on the restoration of

brownfields and former mining and oil industry sites.

He has supervised or co-supervised the theses of

some forty graduate students and post-doctoral

fellows. As author or co-author, he has published

nearly a hundred peer-reviewed articles and given

as many lectures in Canada and abroad. He served

as chair for the 2000 International Symposium on

the Tree and for the 2007 International Workshop on

Environmental Applications of Willows and Poplars.

In 2007, he co-founded the Société québécoise

de phytotechnologie. In 2017, he chaired the

14th International Conference on Phytotechnologies,

held in Montreal and attended by close to

400 specialists from 50 countries.

irbv.umontreal.ca/chercheurs/michel-labrecque L13 ABREC KAREL MAYRAND Karel Mayrand heads the operations of the David Suzuki Foundation in Quebec and Atlantic Canada Executive Director, David Suzuki Foundation, Quebec and and serves as chair of Climate Reality Canada, the Atlantic Canada, and Chair, Canadian component of the global organization Climate Reality Canada founded by Al Gore. He also sits on the board of the

Cowboys Fringants Foundation. His credits as author

or co-author include Demain, Le Québec (2018),

Ne renonçons à rien (2017, with the Faut qu’on se

parle collective), Une voix pour la Terre (2012) and

Governing Global Desertification (2006), as well as

the environmental manifesto Manifeste pour un Élan

Global (2015), signed by 42,000 people.

Before joining the David Suzuki Foundation in

2008, he served for more than a decade as advisor

on globalization and environmental issues to

international agencies and former Quebec Premier

Pierre Marc Johnson. In 2002, he co-founded

Unisféra, an international strategic advisory firm,

where he established the greenhouse gas offset

program Planetair. Named an Action Canada Fellow

in 2005, he was a finalist for the 2008 Arista award

for socially responsible entrepreneurship in Quebec.

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M14 AYRAND KARINE PÉLOFFY A graduate of McGill University’s transsystemic law program, Karine Péloffy was called to the Quebec Bar E xe c u t i ve D i re c t o r, Quebec Environmental Law Centre in 2007 and holds an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford. As

executive director of the Quebec Environmental Law

Centre since 2014, she has been active in cases aimed

at protecting endangered species, notably the belugas

at Cacouna and the Western chorus frog at La Prairie.

Her expertise in climate change law comes into play

in innovative legislative approaches and national and

international legal remedies.

As a member of the Multi-Interest Advisory

Committee on the environmental assessment review

process appointed by the Minister of Environment

and Climate Change, she heads the working group on

climate change. She has published articles on climate

change litigation and is part of a multidisciplinary

effort involving three Canadian universities to provide

input on the inclusion of a “climate test” in federal

environmental assessments.

In 2015, she was named Lawyer of the Year

(Alternative Career category) by the Young Bar

of Montreal. Early in her career, she practiced

commercial litigation at a Montreal firm. She later

worked with an NGO as a lawyer for Congo Basin

forest communities and volunteered with envi-

ronmental and social justice initiatives in Central

America, Africa, Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia.

cqde.org P15 ELOFFY EMMANUELLE POUYDEBAT Emmanuelle Pouydebat has been observing animals for nearly twenty years, questioning received ideas about Research Director, CNRS and Muséum d’histoire naturelle, and human uniqueness. She earned her PhD at Collège animal intelligence specialist de France under the direction of the well-known

paleontologist Yves Coppens, working as his teaching

and research assistant with a particular focus on

manipulation skills and the use of tools. After

lecturing for a time at the university, she joined France’s

National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) as

an accredited research director in the Adaptive

Mechanisms and Evolution lab, which she now heads.

In her book L’intelligence animale, cervelle d’oiseaux

et mémoire d’éléphants (Animal Intelligence: Bird

Brains and Elephant Memory), she puts humans in their

place, showing that they represent a mere drop in the

ocean of evolution and that intelligence is an adaptive

function shared by all animals.

STEFAN SOBKOWIAK Farmer, permaculturist, teacher, biologist, designer, author and speaker Stefan Sobkowiak has given more Farmer, permaculture grower, biologist and author than 500 talks and workshops to all manner of groups and audiences in France, Switzerland, Sweden, New

Zealand and the U.S. He taught at McGill University

for eight years, and for twenty years worked as a

biologist and designer running a landscape architec-

ture firm specializing in wildlife habitat design.

An inveterate inventor and designer since childhood,

he is now trying to restrict himself to permaculture

farming, his latest passion. For the past two decades,

his focus at Miracle Farms has been on transforming

a conventional apple orchard into an abundance of

biodiversity that virtually takes care of itself. After the

necessary transition period and five years of organic

growing, he realized that organic was not the answer.

This led to The Permaculture Orchard, which is

documented in the film of the same name.

miracle.farm ©Stefan Sobkowiak S17 OBKO R O B I N WA L L K I M M E R E R Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, plant ecologist, writer and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the Botanist, writer, SUNY ESF professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Director, Center for Native Peoples Syracuse, New York. She has taught courses in botany, and the Environment, member of the Potawatomi Nation ecology, ethnobotany, indigenous environmental issues as well as a seminar on the application of traditional ecological knowledge to conservation. A co-founder and past president of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge section of the Ecological Society of America, she serves as a Senior Fellow for the Center for Nature and Humans. Of European and Anishinaabe ancestry, she is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

As a writer and scientist, her interest in restoration extends to both ecological communities and our rela- tionships to land. She has authored numerous scientific papers on the ecology of mosses and restoration ecology, and on the contributions of traditional ecological wisdom to our understanding of the natural world. Her literary writings on biology include essays, published in Whole Terrain, Adirondack Life, Orion and several anthologies, as well as books. Gathering Moss, which combines traditional indigenous knowledge with scientific perspectives, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing in 2005. Her latest book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013), won the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. She has been writer-in-residence at Andrews Experimental Forest, Blue Mountain Center, Sitka Center and Mesa Refuge.

Holding a BSc in botanical sciences from SUNY ESF and MSc and PhD degrees in botany from the University of Wisconsin, she lives on an old farm in upstate New York, where she tends her wild and cultivated gardens.

esf.edu/faculty/kimmerer K18 IMMER

A F I L M TO G E T P E O P L E INVOLVED

All too often, documentaries lay out alarming findings

that leave viewers feeling helpless to act on the urgent

issues.

Maison 4:3, the Canadian distributor of Earth: Seen from

the Heart, has been handling engaged and engaging

documentaries for the past two years. And like A Quest

for Meaning and Tomorrow before it, this new film will

be promoted with Q&A screenings and accompanied

in every city by local associations and structures ready

to offer viewers concrete solutions and exciting ways

to take action.

ON EARTH DAY, APRIL 22, 2018, THE FILM WILL BE

ON SCREENS ALL ACROSS CANADA AND IN EUROPE! T20 O ACT A film by IOLANDE CADRIN-ROSSIGNOL

Production JANE LOSA FILMS

Written by IOLANDE CADRIN-ROSSIGNOL MARIE-DOMINIQUE MICHAUD

Line producers CATHERINE CHAGNON MARIE-DOMINIQUE MICHAUD CHANTALE PAGÉ

Production managers CATHERINE CHAGNON MARIE-DOMINIQUE MICHAUD CHANTALE PAGÉ

Cinematography SOPHIE DERASPE Editing OANA SUTEU KHINTIRIAN Sound design SYLVAIN BELLEMARE Original music NICOLAS MARANDA Mix LUC BOUDRIAS

Post-production directors EART MÉLANIE GAUTHIER JULIEN TREMBLAY

Produced by MARIE-DOMINIQUE MICHAUD H CHANTALE PAGÉ JACQUES BLAIN

With the financial support of English subtitled version of La Terre vue du cœur

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