The Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve presents - Season 8 - Films That Make You Think
Showtimes are all 7:00 P.M. at the West Parry Sound District Museum tickets $10 Adult, $7 Students and Seniors WEST PARRY SOUND DISTRICT MUSEUM January 10 - CitizenFour June 13 - Minimalism
A real life thriller, giving audiences unprecedented access How might your life be better with less? Minimalism: A to filmmaker Laura Poitras & journalist Glenn Greenwald’s Documentary About the Important Things examines the many encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass of minimalists from all walks of life—families, entrepreneurs, indiscriminate & illegal invasions of privacy by the National architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former Security Agency (NSA). Watch Poitras, Greenwald, & Wall Street broker—all of whom are striving to live a Snowden as they attempt to manage the media storm raging meaningful life with less. outside, forced to make quick decisions that will impact their lives & all of those around them. Be shown the dangers of governmental surveillance—you will never think the same way about your phone, email, credit card, web browser, or profile, ever again.
February 2 - Lo and Behold Sept 12 - at Charles W. Stockey Centre How to let go of the world The Oscar-nominated Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the In How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination Climate Can’t Change, Oscar Nominated director Josh he previously trained on earthly destinations as disparate as Fox (GASLAND) continues in his deeply personal style, the Amazon, the Sahara, the South Pole and the Australian investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world outback. Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some the online world has transformed how virtually everything of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate in the real world works - from business to education, space change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct calamity can take it away? our personal relationships.
March 14 - October 10 - Hadwins Judgement Racing Extinction
The film chronicles the tormented transformation of Grant From the Academy Award®- winning filmmaking team that Hadwin from expert logger to environmental terrorist, a revealed oceanic atrocities in “The Cove” comes a bigger and man who dared to challenge the destruction of the world’s bolder mission. Utilizing state-of-the-art equipment, director last great temperate rainforest. Unable to reconcile his love for the forest with the fact that he was contributing to its Louie Psihoyos assembles a team of activists intent on destruction, Hadwin decided to commit a radical crime in showing the world never-before-seen images that will change protest, one that earned him hatred from the aboriginal Haida the way we understand issues of endangered species and Nation and a court date. He didn’t show up to court, and a mass extinction. Whether infiltrating notorious black markets few months later his kayak was found on the shore of an with gureilla style tactics or working with artists to create uninhabited island. He has never been seen again. Hadwin’s one-man crusade culminated in a perverse and outrageous act beautiful imagery, with unexpected animal subjects, “Racing of protest that was, in itself, a crime against nature. Extinction will literally change the way you see the world. April 11 - The true cost November 14 -
This a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the Before the flood people who make them, and the impact the industry is having
on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown A look at how climate change affects our environment and dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary what society can do prevent the demise of endangered film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us species, ecosystems and native communities across the to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing? Filmed planet. in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums, and featuring interviews with the world’s leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth and Vandana Shiva, The True Cost is an unprecedented project that invites us on an eye opening journey around the world and into the lives of the many people and places behind our clothes.
May 9 - December 12 - Unlocking the Cage The sugar film
Follow animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented THAT SUGAR FILM is one man’s journey to discover the challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a from humans. After thirty years of struggling with ineffective unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar animal welfare laws, Steve & his legal team, the Nonhuman Rights diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are Project (NhRP), are making history by filing the first lawsuits commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. Through this entertaining that seek to transform an animal from a thing with no rights to a person with legal protections. This captures a monumental shift and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues in our culture, as the public & judicial system show increasing that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on
supermarket shelves. THAT SUGAR FILM will forever change receptiveness to Steve’s impassioned arguments. It is an intimate look at a lawsuit that could forever transform our legal system, the way you think about ‘healthy’ food. and one man’s lifelong quest to protect “nonhuman” animals.
For information or tickets contact the Museum, email Glen Hodgson [email protected] or call 705 378 4065. Tickets will be available at the door unless the show is sold out.
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