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THE MAGNITUDE OF ALL THINGS

By Jennifer ABBOTT

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA - as SALES All rights, World / PROMO

Environmental - Completed 2020

Jennifer Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things merges stories from the frontlines of climate change with recollections of the loss of her sister, drawing intimate parallels between personal and planetary grief.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Environmental, Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA, AUSTRALIA, ECUADOR, UNITED KINGDOM, SWEDEN
- Languages
- ENGLISH, SPANISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- Jennifer ABBOTT
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Partners & financing
- National Film Board of Canada
  TELUS Fund
  Telefilm Canada
- Production schedule
- Completed by July 1, 2020
- End of shooting
- Nov 30, 2019