Across Atlantic Canada, coastlines and communities are already being adversely affected by climate change due to increasing storm intensity, surging sea levels, coastal erosion and flooding. Preparations are now being made for the super storms of the future, but this will not be easy, as ocean levels are expected to increase over one meter globally by the year 2100 due to melting Polar Regions and warmer waters undergoing “thermal expansion”. This film, shot across Atlantic Canada, represents a consultation with over 100 stakeholders, and documents their real world experiences and efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Despite being on the frontlines, Atlantic Canadians show that solutions to this pressing global issue are within our grasp, provided we decide to act.
Lunenburg Doc Fest is proud to announce the World Festival Premiere of CLIMATE CHANGE IN ATLANTIC CANADA.
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In addition, we are delighted to welcome attending filmmaker Ian Mauro, who will participate in a Question & Answer period following the screening of CLIMATE CHANGE IN ATLANTIC CANADA.
Attending Filmmaker
Ian Mauro
Executive Producer, Director & Video Editor
Dr. Ian Mauro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Winnipeg. He holds a BSc in Environmental Science and PhD in Geography, from University of Manitoba, and was a SSHRC Postdoctoral fellow in Ethnoecology at the University of Victoria. He previously held a Canada Research Chair in Human Dimensions of Environmental Change at Mount Allison University.
As both a community-based researcher and filmmaker, Mauro works at the interface between the social and ecological sciences, and is a pioneer of multi-media methodologies, scholarship and education. He uses participatory video to collect, communicate and conserve local and indigenous knowledge, an approach that allows people who live on the land to tell their own stories, in their own language, and within the landscapes where their knowledge has been generated. He was awarded an “Apple Distinguished Educator” award for his approach in 2011.
Mauro’s most recent research documentary, CLIMATE CHANGE IN ATLANTIC CANADA, has toured across the region with Dr. David Suzuki.
CLIMATE CHANGE IN ATLANTIC CANADA will screen at The Pearl Theatre on Saturday, September 20th at 11:00am.
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