The Magnitude of All ThingsWhen Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker’s childhood on Ontario’s Georgian Bay. What do these…
The Last Stand The Last Stand uses the flashpoint of B.C.’s Fairy Creek stand-off to examine the importance of keeping intact forest ecosystems. The film reveals the complexity of issues facing the world: the need to protect habitat, while balancing economies, jobs; and also recognizing the rights of First Nations people. Finally, The Last Stand looks at solutions...both to technological…
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva This film is the story of how the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator rose to prominence in the seed saving and organic food movements, and is inspiring an international crusade for change. Vandana speaks for an ecological vision for food and farming in which we can regenerate the environment and human democracies.…
Be The Change Film Series Presents: Boil AlertThis urgent documentary about activist Layla Staats shows the faces and personal stories behind the struggle of First Nations reserves to receive a basic human right: drinkable water.Activist Layla Staats is our guide to the struggle of First Nations reserves to receive a basic human right — drinkable water. Canadians often hear statistics…
Common Ground Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the juggernaut success documentary, Kiss the Ground, which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of…
BMFA Author Talk with Janice Mason Steeves The Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts (BMFA) invites you to an unforgettable evening with Janice Mason Steeves, the celebrated author of Bloom: On Becoming an Artist Later in Life. As part of our annual Storytelling Festival, Janice will share her incredible journey and insights on creativity and aging.In this inspiring talk, Janice will…
500 Days in the Wild Be The Change Film Series is excited to start Season 17 on Wednesday October 16th at 7pm at the Simcoe Street Theatre in Collingwood with the screening of 500 Days in the Wild. Canadian award-winning director and cinematographer, Dianne Whelan, made this film about her epic journey across Canada on the Trans-Canada trail. For a woman in her 50s who is not…
The New Corporation Be The Change Film Series continues Season 17 on Wednesday November 20th at 7pm at the Simcoe Street Theatre in Collingwood with a screening of, The NEW Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel. From Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott, filmmakers of the multi-award-winning global hit, The Corporation , comes this hard-hitting and timely sequel. The New Corporation reveals how the corporate takeover of society is being…
Hell & High Water and Bringing The Salmon HomeEvent descriptionOn Wednesday May 21, 2025, 7pm at the Simcoe Street Theatre, Be The Change Film Series (BTC) presents a double feature of short films followed by a Q & A with filmmaker, Jeremy Williams. HELL & HIGH WATER gives voice to the Nlakaʼpamux Nation communities of Lytton and Shackan as they experience traumatic…
BTC Film Series Presents: Incandescence Date & Time: October 15 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Tickets Wildfires are burning with increasing intensity around the world. Following the rhythms of the seasons, Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper’s Incandescence is an immersive cinematic experience, weaving on-the-ground footage with extraordinary stories of survival and adaptation that transform our understanding of wildfire. The film takes…
Eating our Way to Extinction Date & Time: November 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Tickets Be The Change Film Series presents Eating Our Way to Extinction takes audiences on a cinematic journey around the world, from the depths of the Amazon rainforests to the Taiwanese Mountains, the Mongolian desert, the US Dust Bowl, the Norwegian Fjords and the…
The Cigarette Surfboard Date & Time: January 21 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Tickets Be The Change Film Series presents The Cigarette Surfboard. After a young designer realizes that a surfboard – which he crafted from thousands of littered cigarette butts picked up off California beaches – could captivate the eyes of millions across the globe, he decides to use…