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Part 1: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance

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Part 2: Climate Justice & The Thin Green Line

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“It’s notoriously hard to make films about climate change that are pleasurable to watch. The NECESSITY filmmakers have done just that.”

Naomi KleinProfessor of Climate Justice, University of British Columbia; Filmmaker, and author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything
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“I wish that every high school student in the country could watch NECESSITY. This is a damning portrait of the bankers and builders who crisscross the country with fossil fuel pipelines — and yet it sings with courage and hope.”

Bill BigelowCurriculum Editor, Rethinking Schools; Co-Director, Zinn Education Project
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"This film belongs in our classrooms if we believe students deserve a curriculum that is relevant, urgent, and committed to a just future."

Ursula Wolfe-RoccaHigh School Teacher and Editor, Rethinking Schools

NECESSITY is a fiscally sponsored project of Film Independent, selected project of Doc Society + Exposure Labs inaugural Climate Story Lab, and selected project of The Fledgling Fund Call for Projects on Climate Change, and The Puffin Foundation.

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