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- Wednesday, September 14 - 8:00am
Liceo Francés de Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo - Thursday, September 15 - 4:00pm
Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), Santo Domingo - Friday, September 16 - 8:30am
Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), Santo Domingo
A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
Director: Avi Lewis
Country: USA
Year: 2015
Duration: 89 min
Language: English
Subtitles : Spanish
Avi Lewis
Avram Avi Lewis is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, former host of the Al Jazeera English show Fault Lines and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation(CBC) current-affairs program On the Map.
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