Screenings

We are excited to announce the Canadian premiere of The Magnitude of All Things at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival!

Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver,
November 24, 2021 4:30 pm

Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, December 12, 2021

Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF)

The 39th edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival, running Sept 24 - Oct 7, will be presented as an online festival available to all British Columbians.

Tammy Bannister, VIFF Programmer called it "perhaps the most visceral, reasoned call to action for humanity since An Inconvenient Truth”.

Weaving correlations between our environmental paralysis and her sister’s journey with a terminal illness, Jennifer Abbott extends a generous form of film-therapy - a game-changing rumination on the psychology of the climate crisis.

Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)

The 23rd edition of the Montreal International Documentary Festival will run for three weeks from November 12 - December 2  across Quebec with films featured in week-long thematic presentations.  The Magnitude of All Things will be featured in the Exploring Nature category from November 12-18. 

International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA)

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is one of the leading documentary festivals in the world.  The Magnitude of All Things will have its International Premiere as part of their Frontline section, which includes 17 films that encourage a deeper understanding of the world today, examining the zeitgeist from lesser-heard perspectives. 

IDFA runs from November 18 - December 6, 2020 

*Ticket sales start Thursday, November 12, and can only be purchased online. 

Planet in Focus

Planet in Focus is celebrating its 21st anniversary as Canada’s leading environmental film organization showcasing and promoting outstanding environmental films in all genres by Canadian and international filmmakers. 

When director Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Her documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary.

Banff Mountain Film Festival

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.

Guelph Film Festival, Opening Night Film

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.

Sydney International Film Festival

Potent stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with a filmmaker’s familial memories in this cinematic documentary. Featuring activists, scientists and traditional custodians from Australia and beyond.

Jennifer Abbott, multi-award-winning director of The Corporation (SFF 2004), began to grapple with the gravity of climate change as her sister faced a terminal illness. Abbott draws parallels between this personal and planetary grief. As she travels the globe, she captures stunning images and witnesses a planet in crisis: from Kiribati to the Amazon rainforest; from Australia's bushfires to the fate of the Great Barrier Reef. She documents climate action worldwide – including Extinction Rebellion protests, Greta Thunberg-inspired school strikes and First Nations communities battling to save their traditional lands. As Abbott contemplates her sister's fate and our collective environmental paralysis, she poses the tough question: do we need hope to act, or do we need to lose hope in order to act?