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Your FREE All ACCESS PASS will admit you to all in-person AND virtual screenings at the 2023 Water Docs Film Festival.
Virtual access available Nov 20 - Dec 17
SUN NOV 19 at 1PM
#LaterNoMore: Activating Climate Solutions Now!
Climate Action Now!
Presented in collaboration:
The Ecologos Environmental Organization
Regenterating Toronto
School of the Environment
at the University of Toronto
Funded by:
The Government of Canada’s
Community Services Recovery Fund
Also made possible by:
Stantec, Peterborough KM Hunter Foundation,
and the ongoing financial support of our many donors.
As part of our Film Festival this year, we invite you to attend our Community Town Hall Meeting where we will be screening “The Whale Guitar” and "The Erie Situation" and moderating a post-screening panel discussion and some interactive surprises.
The Whale Guitar
Director: Shawn Tetrault
UNITED STATES | 2022 | 12 MIN
Inspired by Herman Melville's epic tale, "Moby-Dick or The Whale", THE WHALE GUITAR: INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE follows a late-blooming singer/songwriter and former toy designer, Jen Long, as she acts on a startling vision and commissions the design and build of a remarkable custom electric guitar. Its body is "The Whale" itself as it snags the mad Captain Ahab in the tangled ropes of his own obsession and prepares to launch a boat of his whalers to their doom. The entire guitar re-interprets Melville's tale as an Anthropocene climate change warning, with the whale representing the seas and storms of climate change arising on this "third day" of late-stage capitalism.
Hundreds of guitarists, including J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., and Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females, have played and signed this "Instrument of Change" to amplify the alarm to turn our ship of over-production and over-consumption around while there is still time. As the embroidered strap featuring Starbuck's last words implores: "Oh! Ahab, not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist."
The Erie Situation
Director: David J. Ruck
UNITED STATES | 2023 | 72 MIN
David J. Ruck, Director
David has spent two decades exploring environmental and science-based issues through video storytelling. After several years working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, he started his own production company, Great Lakes Outreach Media, and routinely works within government, non-profit, and the private sector exploring stories about environmental issues to create public awareness.
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