Directed by Jennifer Abbott |
Canada, 2020 (documentary, 86 minutes, colour, English) |
Also known as "L'ampleur de toutes choses" |
Image: © National Film Board of Canada |
Video (National Film Board of Canada)
Video (National Film Board of Canada) [French] |
Film Description: "When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott's new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker's childhood on Ontario's Georgian Bay. What do these stories have in common? The answer, surprisingly, is everything. For the people featured, climate change is not happening in the distant future: it is kicking down the front door. Battles waged, lamentations of loss, and raw testimony coalesce into an extraordinary tapestry, woven together with raw emotion and staggering beauty that transform darkness into light, grief into action." -- National Film Board of Canada (source) |
Film Credits (partial): | |
Written by: | Jennifer Abbott |
Produced by: | Andrew Williamson, Henrik Meyer, Jennifer Abbott, Shirley Vercruysse, Joanna Rybus, Jennifer Roworth |
Narrator: | Jennifer Abbott, Tara Samuel |
Participants: | Tara Samuel, Jessa Abbott Balint, Tahlea Abbott Balint, Sarah Baikie, David Bowman, Ashlee Cunsolo, Jo Dodds, Clare Farrell, Marjorie Flowers, Sally Gillespie, Patricia Gualinga, Roger Hallam, Patricia Hansson, Jan Harris, Beth Hill, Mukutsawa Montahuano, Belén Páez, Derrick Pottle, Kevin Taggart, Greta Thunberg, Anote Tong, Manari Ushigua, Lethly Varga, Charlie Veron, Tsitsanu Ushigua Dahua, Nathan Hunter, Sammy McNamara, Dominique Palmer, Brooklyn Wolfrey, Community members of the Sápara nation, Community members of Rigolet, Labrador, The Extinction Rebellion samba band, Extinction Rebellion Youth |
Cinematography: | Vince Arvidson |
Film Editing: | Jennifer Abbott |
Production Company: | National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada, Magnitude Productions inc., Flying Eye Productions, Cedar Island Films |