All Too Clear Film Premiere
August 10, 2024 @ 7:00 pm
Georgian Bay Forever is proud to present the Premiere of the documentary film All Too Clear: Beneath the Surface of the Great Lakes, with co-host Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere.
The event will be hosted on August 10, 2024 at The Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts located in Parry Sound, ON. Doors will open at 6:00 pm for guests to meet their hosts, Georgian Bay Forever, Georgian Bay Biosphere, and documentary producers, Inspired Planet Productions. Enjoy several informative booths, a beverage at the cash bar, and a unique opportunity to see the underwater robots involved in filming. Opening ceremonies and remarks will begin promptly at 7:00 pm. The 90-minute feature film will be followed by a Q & A period where guests will have the opportunity to ask questions of the producers, Zach Melnick and Yvonne Drebert, several of the scientists featured in the film, as well as David Sweetnam, Executive Director of Georgian Bay Forever, and Katrina Krievins, Aquatic Conservation Programs Manager of the Georgian Bay Biosphere and editor of the 2023 State of the Bay ecosystem health magazine.
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.
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.
This is event is general seating, seats are first come – first served. Tickets are $12.95 + HST each.
Tickets can also be purchased during our business hours by calling our Box Office at 705-746-4466 extension 405 or visiting us at 2 Bay Street, Parry Sound.