Greater Manchester film première of This Changes Everything – Saturday, 26 September 2015

Manchester Friends of the Earth is partnering with Fossil Free UK to host the Manchester premiere of the film, This Changes Everything, on Saturday, 26 September 2015.

Based on Naomi Klein’s book ‘This Changes Everything’ and filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.

The film will be broadcast simultaneously in cities across the globe – Greater Manchester audiences can see the film at Bridge 5 Mill in Ancoats, home of the Manchester Environmental Resource Centre Initiative (MERCi). (1)

The audience will also have the chance to take part in a live Q&A with Naomi Klein and the director Avi Lewis, streamed from New York.

Manchester Friends of the Earth campaigner, Ali Abbas said

“The Paris Climate Conference is just two months away. This film is a wake up call – a call to action for people in Manchester and all around the world to organise for change and work together to achieve a more sustainable and just future.”

The film is inspired by the international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, by renowned Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker Naomi Klein.(2)

Naomi freely admits that she has “always kind of hated films about climate change.” This is why the film turns the traditional narrative of climate change on its head by presenting seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines of the climate threat.  From Montana’s Powder River Basin to the coast of South India and beyond, using extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography This Changes Everything provides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time.

Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the dangerous levels of carbon in our atmosphere with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.

ENDS

Contacts for comments: Pete Abel, Manchester Friends of the Earth, Mobile: 07951 642858

Ali Abbas, Manchester Friends of the Earth Co-ordinator, Mobile: 07786 090520

Notes to editors:

(1)  MERCi, Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 7HR. Saturday 26th September. Doors open 6pm.

Tickets cost £5 and can be booked via Eventbrite.
(2)  This Changes Everything UK: We work to build the power of the movement for environmental justice and challenge those responsible for the climate crisis. For further information visit changeeverything.org, follow us at @TCEUK, or like our Facebook page.

Still photo and images are available to download at This Changes Everything media.

Film trailer available on YouTube.
3) Manchester Friends of the Earth is an award-winning environmental campaign group, raising awareness and lobbying for policy changes at a local, regional, national and international level. The group consists entirely of volunteers, and its campaigns are funded by membership fees and individual donations. Up-to-date information is available on the group’s website: www.manchesterfoe.org.uk  Manchester Friends of the Earth is a Licensed Local Group of Friends of the Earth, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

4) Manchester Friends of the Earth has endorsed Manchester: A Certain Future, an action plan for the city of Manchester to cut its carbon emissions by at least 41% by 2020. For more information, visit  www.manchesterclimate.com