The All Too Clear Screening
September 26, 2024,
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM EDT
Galaxy Cinemas Collingwood
6 Mountain Road Collingwood,
ON L9Y 4S8
Georgian Bay Forever is proud to present the premiere of the documentary film All Too Clear: Beneath the Surface of the Great Lakes. Georgian Bay Forever is the lead sponsor of this epic feature-length documentary that will explore the effects of quagga mussels on the Great Lakes using the world’s most advanced underwater drone.
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The event will be hosted on September 26th, 2024 at the Galaxy Cinemas in Collingwood, Ontario.
About the Film:
All Too Clear uses cutting-edge underwater drones to explore how quadrillions of tiny invasive mussels are re-engineering the ecosystem of North America’s Great Lakes at a scale not seen since the glaciers. The mussels are trapping nutrients, the building blocks of life, on the lake bottom. Without nutrients, organisms of all kinds – from the tiniest plankton to the largest fish – are vanishing, creating vast biological deserts. The scientific community is divided into those racing to find a way to control the invaders, and those who see an ironic silver-lining in the new world created by the mussels – a once-in-a-lifetime chance to restore an ancient and forgotten native ecosystem.
The mussels have also had an extraordinary side effect: they’ve made the lakes clearer than they’ve ever been before. We’ve harnessed this clarity to film never-before-seen visuals: from dazzling shallow water worlds that look more like the Caribbean than the Great Lakes, to previously undiscovered shipwrecks, completely entombed in mussels, 300 feet beneath the surface.
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All Too Clear is an eye-popping exploration of our freshwater world that makes us all part of the high-stakes mission to breathe life back into the depths.
Tickets are $11.98/each and help to cover the costs associated with hosting. Please join us for this extraordinary event!
“Stories are powerful agents for change, but the story about what happens beneath the surface of our treasured Great Lakes has been largely untold. We need to tell this story around the world, while there is still hope for our fellow Great Lakes relatives and water, because people can't help until they are aware,”
- David Sweetnam, Executive Director
of Georgian Bay Forever.
For more on Inspired Planet Productions: www.inspiredplanet.ca
“The film was INCREDIBLE! I was completely bowled over by the things I learned about mussels in our Great Lakes. I mean, it was so totally new to me, and devastating. This film must be watched by everyone who lives in or near the lakes.” - Janet Turnbull-Irving
About Inspired Planet Productions
Producer Yvonne Drebert and Director/Cinematographer Zach Melnick are a husband-and-wife documentary production team, working under the banner of Inspired Planet Productions. They’ve been creating documentaries for 20 years and were most recently recognized at the Canadian Screen Awards with a nomination for the Rob Stewart Award for Best Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series in 2021 for their TVO/Knowledge Network series, Striking Balance. They’ve spent their documentary careers exploring the connection between people and nature through stories of sustainable development, overlooked natural worlds, and forgotten history. They live on the shores of Lake Huron’s Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula in Ontario.
