Ian Mauro and David Suzuki
WINNIPEG, MB – Internationally recognized filmmaker and UWinnipeg geography professor Dr. Ian Mauro’s film Climate Change in Atlantic Canada is at Cinematheque, (100 Arthur Street), and will be shown from November 26 -27 at 7:00pm.
Mauro’s film explores the impacts of extreme weather on coastal communities and local-level approaches to mitigation and adaptation and has already toured throughout Atlantic Canada and the western provinces with award-winning scientist and broadcaster David Suzuki.
“It’s exciting to have a local premiere here in Winnipeg. Climate change affects us all, and the film helps to encourage discussion about how we might respond here in our own community,” explains Mauro.
This film, shot across Atlantic Canada, represents a consultation with over 100 stakeholders and documents their real world experiences with increasing storm intensity, surging sea levels, coastal erosion and flooding.
“Mauro’s film punctuates the IPCC’s findings with a big exclamation mark,” says Suzuki. “The local perspectives provide a warning that social, economic and ecological costs are rapidly mounting and we must take climate change seriously.”
Also screening is Suzuki Tour, a short documenting the national tour with Suzuki, which was co-directed by Mauro and UWinnipeg Geography student Hillary Beattie.
Hillary Beatie
“Communicating climate change using digital media is a huge interest of mine,” said Beattie. “Working with Dr. Mauro has given me the opportunity to further develop these skills.”
Mauro co-directed Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change with acclaimed Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner), he’s presently working on his third climate change focused on British Columbia, and currently teaches at the University of Winnipeg in the department of geography. For tickets and more information please visit Cinematheque.
