But in her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Press and industry screenings will happen Thursday, September 10th at 12:30 PM at Scotiabank 2, and Thursday, September 17th at 12:15 PM at Scotiabank 10.In her previous books The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism ( 2007) and NO LOGO: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs ( 2000), Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein took on topics like neoliberal “shock therapy,” consumerism, globalization and “disaster capitalism,” extensively documenting the forces behind the dramatic rise in economic inequality and environmental degradation over the past 50 years. This Changes Everything will have its world premiere Sunday, September 13th at 2:45 PM at the Ryerson Theatre, followed by additional public screenings on Wednesday, September 16th at 2:00 PM at The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, and Friday, September 18th at 11:45 AM at Cinema 1. Shot in nine countries on five continents over four years, it’s executive produced by Alfonso Cuarón, Seth MacFarlane, Danny Glover and Shepard Fairey, directed by Avi Lewis ( The Take, The Shock Doctrine), and narrated by Klein. The official trailer is out now and you can watch it here. polluted Beijing, South India, and more, while also drawing connections between the problem of global warming and economic systems that facilitate it. Inspired by the nonfiction bestseller by Naomi Klein, the film attempts to humanize the problem by looking at the people living on what amounts to the front lines, visiting locations like the Alberta tar sands, Montana’s Powder River Basin.
The problem is huge and often looks insurmountable, but This Changes Everything, a new documentary premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, aims to change that. When Charles Dudley Warner said “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” he was joking, but he might as well have been talking to people living in the era of global climate change.
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