Activist Double Feature - Part I - CINEMA SIT-IN

Climate Change: What can I do?

Buy a ticket for this screening, along with a ticket for Part II of our Activist Double Feature: Stand-up for Water! at the same time and SAVE $5 over the cost of 2 screening tickets when purchased separately.

Water Docs Film Festival and Cinéfest Sudbury take a stand for climate action with launch of Cinema Sit-in. March 25 (Sudbury) and 27 (Toronto)

Cinema Sit-in: a grassroots, multi-location film screening to unite audiences in an urgent call for climate action. In its inaugural year, Cinema Sit-in will screen the Canadian Premiere of the feature documentary Little Yellow Boots.

Little Yellow Boots
Filmmaker: John Webster
FINLAND | 2017 | 95 min | Canadian Premiere

How can one help one’s grandchild, or great-grandchild, fifty years from now? What do we pass on to those who come after us, for both good and for bad? And what difference can one person make in the world? These are the universal questions that drive LITTLE YELLOW BOOTS, a cinematic letter to filmmaker John Webster’s great-grandchild, a girl who will be born in the 2060s, and whose little yellow boots will walk on a very different shoreline to the one we knew. Drawing from Webster’s personal experience of loss, viewers are taken on an emotional and physical journey from Finland across Russia to the coal mines of Siberia, to the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, and across the U.S. to New York. The story seamlessly weaves together past, present and future into a beautiful, moving and hopeful documentary film about the power of each of us to make a difference.

Our screening will be followed by a discussion led and facilitated by Duncan Holmes, a professional ICA facilitator from Toronto, addressing the question we are all wondering about, "What can I do?"

FACILITATOR: Duncan Holmes
Duncan Holmes’ professional background includes 35 years of facilitation, leadership training, community consultation and administration. As past President of ICA Associates Inc and past Chair of the Ecologos Environmental Organization and Trinity St. Paul’s United Church in Toronto, Canada, he has focused his consultation and facilitation methods on strategic planning and leadership development within organizations and communities. Duncan has also trained group leaders in facilitation skills, strategic planning and team leadership in ten different nations with an emphasis on the Technologies of Participation and motivation.

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EMCEE: Stephen Bede Scharper
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology (UTM)and School of the Environment, University of Toronto

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