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The future is now! / a Burns Film Ltd. & National Film Board of Canada co-production ; produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada ; producers, Shirley Vercruysse, George Baptist, Bonnie Thompson ; written and directed by Gary Burns and Jim Brown.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Future life--Drama.
- Future life.
- Cynicism--Drama.
- Cynicism.
- Optimism--Drama.
- Optimism.
- Time perspective--Drama.
- Time perspective.
- Civilization, Modern--21st century--Drama.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (92 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2015]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- In this entertaining film, a journalist (Liane Balaban) meets "The Man of Today" (Paul Ahmarani) who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he's dead nothing more matters. As an experiment to see if she can turn his pessimistic view around, the journalist sends him on a journey of enlightenment to prove that the future does matter. Traveling the globe, he finds himself in surprising encounters with great minds in the arts and sciences. Will the journalist succeed in turning a cynic into an optimist? Will it matter? What can one person do?
- Participant:
- Liane Balaban and Paul Ahmarani.
- Credits:
- Composer, John Abram ; editor, Paul Mortimer ; cinematographer, Patrick McLaughlin.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Burns Film Ltd./Future Inc./National Film Board of Canada/, c2010.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed July 29, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- nf-future Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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