Green Screens

The National Film Board of Canada’s Mediatheque is going greener this month, offering Torontonians a special expanded edition of its free monthly Green Screens environmental screening and discussion series. Green Screens brings together award-winning feature documentaries and environmental experts and the launch of the NFB website FOOTPRINTS: Environment and the Way We Live, offering an important venue for focusing on the state of our planet today.

Green Screens will feature the Toronto premiere of the documentary The World According to Monsanto, tracing the history of the US multinational, a leader in the development of genetically modified foods considered one of the worst polluters of the industrial age, plus the documentaries Up the Yangtze, Refugees of the Blue Planet, Weather Report and Toxic Trespass – along with discussions and workshops.

Green Screens Schedule

Monday, May 26 @ 6:30pm
The World According to Monsanto, directed by Marie-Monique Robin, prize-winning French journalist and filmmaker and the author of a new book, Le monde selon Monsanto. Post-screening panel includes Dr. Stephen Scharper, ethicist with the University of Toronto, Dr. Mary Alton Mackey, international food and nutrition consultant, and moderator Anne Mitchell, director of the Canadian Institute of Environmental Law and Policy.

Wednesday, May 28 @ 7pm
Up the Yangtze The Three Gorges Dam — contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle — provides the epic backdrop for a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China.

Thursday, May 29  @ 5pm
Green Screens in the Secondary Classroom: A Screening & Resource Session This workshop will provide educators with an integrated media education approach to using the NFB collection of environmental titles in secondary-level language arts, media studies, global issues and social studies classrooms.

Thursday, May 29 @ 7:30pm
Refugees of the Blue Planet An award-winner at Toronto’s Planet in Focus Film Festival, Hélène Choquette and Jean-Philippe Duval’s documentary sheds light on the little-known plight of environmental refugees. Post-screening panel includes Dr. Danny Harvey, professor of geography at the University of Toronto, and Lawson Hunter, president of the Green Party of Ontario.

Friday, May 30 @ 7pm
Weather Report Director Brenda Longfellow takes us to the front-lines of climate change.

Friday, May 30 @ 8pm
The World According to Monsanto (see above)

Saturday, May 31 @ 3pm
Toxic Trespass Barri Cohen launches an investigation into the health effects of the chemical soup that surrounds us.

Additional screenings of Monsanto following Green Screens: June 1 at 1 pm, June 4 at 7 pm, June 9 at 4 pm, June 18 at 7pm, and June 19 at 7pm. Green Screens is presented in partnership with the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy and the Planet in Focus International Environment Film and Video Festival. All events are free.

NFB Mediatheque
150 John Street
www.nfb.ca
416.973.3012