Ecologos is a 23-year registered environmental charity protecting water and a liveable climate. Our signature program, Water Docs Film Festival, has been such a success over its 10 years that we are now better known as Water Docs. This program has spun off four others: Water Docs Where You Live Community Screenings; Water Docs at School Action Projects; Common Earth, a base-camp training program for change agents; and ReSurge: Canadian Film Festivals for a Liveable Climate.
Dive a little deeper and read about who we are, what we do and how we do it.
For our 10th anniversary, Water Docs is convening film festivals from across Canada to jointly produce one high-impact festival called ReSurge: Canadian Film Festivals for a Liveable Climate. Pooling the strengths of several festivals aims at recovering the pre-COVID momentum of public sentiment favouring strong action to avert climate catastrophes. This seven-day, mostly online event takes place from November 1 to 7.
ReSurge
Canadian Film Festivals for a Liveable Climate
November 1 to 7, 2021
Canadian film festivals stand together to deliver a high-impact, online, available everywhere film festival.
ReSurge Film Festival
WATER DOCS PROGRAMS… INSPIRING ACTION
At School
Action Projects
This extraordinary school program teaches thousands of kids about water and climate using a unique, hands-on approach, instilling a passion for water stewardship.
Water Docs at School Action Projects
Where You Live
Community Screenings
Take action and make waves for water and climate protection in your community by hosting your own online community film screening.
Water Docs Where You Live
Common Earth
In-depth training for people who want to be effective change agents. Learn methods to understand how society’s key systems work, identify where change can have the biggest effect, collaborate creatively, and care for oneself in the process.
Common Earth
Water Stories
Water Stories
Stay connected to a common goal of caring for our planet, our water, and for each other. We've created a space for our readers to share their experiences and connections with water and in turn, with each other.
We invite you to enjoy some stories that have been shared through our website and if you feel moved, please share your story with us. And don't forget to send a picture along to illustrate it, too.
Read Water Stories
Submit a Water Story
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Winner of the 2021 Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary, My Octopus Teacher is about a filmmaker who forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
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OUR MISSION
To evoke a spirit of reverence for water.
To inform about threats that imperil water.
To inspire citizen action to protect water
and its effect on climate change.
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Every time I enter the ocean, it shows me something beautiful and unexpected. I’m looking for sharks, and a fin whale surfaces, breath bursting into fine mist. Sea lion pups encourage me to play, spinning in the water, swimming fast then turning on a dime and blowing bubbles. Floating at the surface, a comb jelly mesmerises me with rainbow bands of bioluminescence.