Canadian-born musician James Carson, a gifted child piano prodigy and award-winning filmmaker, will premiere his visually rich and immersive musical documentary Cabin Music at Toronto’s Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival (PIF) this week.
The 24th Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival (PIF) opens this week in Toronto. This year’s lineup is rich in stories from the frontlines of environmental protests, reconciliation efforts and the human impact of climate change.
Every year, PIF offers up some thougth provoking films this year. Below I give you my pick of five films to see at this year’s festival.
Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival (PIF) celebrates its 20th anniversary with a lineup including an eye towards the future, with a selection of cutting-edge filmmaking that reflects the globe through a dynamic range of voices and perspectives.
Below are my personal picks for this year’s festival… Always lots of interesting and thought-provoking films.
Filmed during the last 9-10 years, Ontario’s Slater Jewell-Kemker has travelled the world on the front lines of climate change. At 15 years-old, Slater began documenting the rise of the global youth climate movement, which has taken her around the world to UN Climate Conferences and communities on the front lines of climate change. The result is the documentary Youth Unstoppable.
Theater Of Life
World renowned culinary artist and humanist Massimo Bottura, whose restaurant Osteria Francescana has been voted number one in the world, decided to create a soup kitchen during Milan’s World Fair in 2015. Director Peter Svatek documented the proceedings as sixty of the world’s best chefs joined him to cook for refugees and the homeless of Milan out of the waste food of the Expo.
Planet In Focus (PIF) Environmental Film Festival, Canada’s largest and longest running environmental film festival, is proud to announce the dates for next year’s festival. The 17th annual Planet in Focus will take place from October 18th to 23rd.
Synopsis: From its opening on the streets of Toronto, CRY OF THE ANDES takes you south to Chile’s Huasco Valley for a character driven story about greed and social justice – a cautionary tale about the environment that resonates in multiple industries around the world. In this modern day gold rush, we see how big business, money and power are the world order, where corporations can influence governments, manipulate communities, and disregard human rights. As this wave of globalization crashes down on the Huasco Valley we come to realize that the legacy of Pascua Lama won’t be measured by what is gained – but what is lost.
