forceofnature

Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie

Year 2010
Runtime 93 mins
Language English
Alberta Premiere

Producer Janice Tufford in attendance - Q&A will follow the screening

PG - Not Recommended for Young Children

David Suzuki, iconic Canadian scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist delivers a “last lecture”—what he describes as “a distillation of my life and thoughts, my legacy, what I want to say before I die.” Filmed before a live audience, in front of a memory box of moving, distilled images, he articulates a core, urgent message: We have exhausted the limits of the biosphere and it is imperative that we re-think our relationship with the natural world. Suzuki looks unflinchingly at the strains on our interconnected web of life, and out of our dire present circumstances, he offers up a blueprint for sustainability and survival.

The film interweaves the lecture with scenes from never-before-seen places and recollections in Suzuki’s life. It is a captivating biography of the man behind so many public messages and illuminates a deeply personal attitude shaped by a myriad of factors such as the Japanese internment, the lasting affect of that treatment on his father, Suzuki’s own alienation from Japanese culture as a Canadian and his subsequent development of an unstoppable passion for nature and science. FORCE OF NATURE will reinvigorate your desire to make the world a better place, and Sturla Gunnarsson’s careful tretament of the highly public figure will engage the nature, and connectivity, within all of us. This is vital and profound viewing.

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Countries

Canada
Festivals
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2010
Director
Sturla Gunnarsson
Producer
Janice Tufford, Sturla Gunnarsson, Yves J. Ma
Cinematographer
Tony Westman
Editor
Nick Hector
Cast
David Suzuki