Green Screens presents The Refugees of the Blue Planet
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Green Screens presents The Refugees of the Blue Planet


February 02, 2011


FREE

2006, 53min, Hélène Choquette and Jean-Philippe Duval

Each year, millions of people the world over are driven to forced displacement. From the Maldives to Brazil, and even closer to home, here in Canada, the disturbing accounts of people who have been uprooted are amazingly similar. The enormous pressure placed on rural populations as a result of the degradation of their life-supporting environment is driving them increasingly further from their way of life. The Refugees of the Blue Planet sheds light on the little-known plight of a category of individuals who are suffering the repercussions of this reality: environmental refugees.

In French with English subtitles.

Green Screens partners films from the NFB with experts and panellists selected by the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy. If you are interested in the environment, Green Screens will entertain and inform you.

CIELAP receives support from the RBC Blue Water Project for Green Screens.

Time: 7pm
Venue: NFB Mediatheque
Location: 150 John St. Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/mediatheque/schedule.php?id=2278
Phone: 416-973-3012
Categories: Arts & Culture

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