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Recently nominated for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social, Political Documentary at the 25th Annual Gemini Awards, the film follows tireless water advocate Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians as she works to have water declared a human right, during her term as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the U.N. General Assembly.
The film explores what Barlow describes as “a crisis of monumental proportions” through Canadian and US events and landscapes: Is water a commercial good, like gold or oil? Or, is water a human right, like air?
This remarkable feature-length documentary, from award-winning Canadian Director Liz Marshall, will be shown on Monday, September 20th at 7 PM at Gibsons United Church and on Thursday, September 23rd at 7 PM at St. Hilda's Anglican Church in Sechelt.
This powerful story is coupled with inspired visual imagery of watersheds, lakes, rivers and glaciers in Canada shot by virtuosic cinematographer Steve Cosens, CSC, in tandem with verité footage of Maude Barlow shot over the course of a year by director Marshall.
Director Marshall will be in attendance for both screenings and in addition to the feature-length film, she will also be screening a 10-minute segment entitled The Privatization of BC Hydro: the Glacier-Howser Story. This story, that she and her crew shot in the Kootenays last summer, will be especially relevant to many here on the Sunshine Coast who are concerned about the privatization of this province's rivers and streams.
A 30-minute Q&A session will follow each screening of the film.