Based on Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, a look at how people in various communities around the world play a role in the ongoing climate change debate and how they're affecting change in trying to prevent the environmental destruction of our planet.
Direction
Lewis turns policy into human stories that actually land.
Production
Seven countries, one brutal thesis: extraction is violence.
Director
Avi Lewis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Klein and Lewis are married; this is their only feature collaboration. She wrote the book while he filmed, creating an unusually integrated adaptation.
Released months before the 2015 Paris Agreement, the film now reads as prescient critique of market-based climate solutions that dominated that deal.
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