All Too Clear Screening in Collingwood

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.