Tomorrow's Power

TOMORROW’S POWER showcases three communities from around the world, in Gaza, Colombia and Germany, and their responses to the environmental and economical crises they face.

  • Amy Miller
    Director
    The Carbon Rush, No Land No Food No Life, Myths for Profit: Canada’s Role In Industries of War and Peace
  • Amy Miler
    Writer
    The Carbon Rush, No Land No Food No Life, Myths for Profit: Canada’s Role In Industries of War and Peace
  • Byron A. Martin
    Producer
    Pond Life, Backstage, Panic Button, Panic Button USA, The Carbon Rush, Wild Cherry, My Babysitter's A Vampire (S2), The Devil's Teardrop, Phantom Punch, American Pie presents Beta House, American Pie presents The Naked Mile
  • Amy Miller
    Producer
    The Carbon Rush, No Land No Food No Life, Myths for Profit: Canada’s Role In Industries of War and Peace
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Social Justice, Environmental
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 16 minutes 7 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 31, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    455,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Colombia, Germany, Palestine, State of
  • Language:
    Arabic, German, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Best Feature Documentary
    Sydney
    Australia
    December 15, 2016
    Best Feature Documentary
Distribution Information
  • Off The Fence
    Country: United Kingdom
    Rights: All Rights
  • Indiecan Entertainment
    Country: Canada
    Rights: All Rights
  • Diffusion Multi-Monde (Quebec)
    Country: Canada
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Amy Miller

Amy Miller is a media maker and social justice organizer based in Montréal. She recently directed and wrote the documentary No Land No Food No Life a hard-hitting film on the economy, agricultural land grabs and the changes to farmers’ lives around the world. She directed, wrote and produced the documentary The Carbon Rush, a global exposé on how carbon offset projects impact local peoples. The film has expanded to include an online interactive game as well as a book of essays and photos published by Red Deer Press (2013). She directed, wrote and produced the featurette documentary Myths for Profit: Canada’s Role In Industries of War and Peace that was screened thoroughly across Canada and at festivals including the Milano Film Festival, RIDM and The Bay Street Film Festival, where it won the Peoples Choice award. Her first documentary, Outside of EUrope, focuses on the exclusionary nature of immigration and border policies and continues to be screened around the world. She remains dedicated to developing critical documentaries for transformative social change and helping out grassroots campaigns for justice.

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Director Statement

My films deal with the themes of colonialism and capitalism via structural power. My work has looked at borders, the military industrial complex, the carbon market and agricultural land grabs. When asked, I chuckle and say that my films explore how greed is destroying the planet and everyone on it. While the subject for each film is different, I remain committed to the proposition that if people understand the situation, they can take action and change the world.

Over the last 18 months while of presenting NO LAND, NO FOOD, NO LIFE and THE CARBON RUSH at various screenings around the world, I have become uncomfortably conscious of how audiences react to the films. People learn a tremendous amount from them. They are shocked, stunned and often paralyzed with fear by what they are seeing and what they are feeling. Shock then turns to despair or anger. But anger is a luxury that is only afforded to those that who believe, at least a tiny bit, that they can do something to make things right. In the past I would been disappointed to see how many people react to my films with despair to my films rather than anger. Now I have come to understand a deeper truism. An emotion even more powerful than anger, one that can transform spectators into agents of change, is hope. Hope creates possibilities. Hope instills in us a sense of expectation and anticipation that what we want can come true. TOMORROW’S POWER will be the much needed film to explain our worldwide addiction to fossil fuels and the its relationship to climate change, but it will also empower and motivate: It will inspire its viewers to work hard and persist even in the face of massive obstacles, setbacks and failures.

The choice to develop TOMORROW’S POWER was a matter of following my heart, my intuition, my true inner voice. Each person is here on this planet for such a limited time so it is crucial to do what we can, with the gifts we are given. With all my courage I am answering the call to make a documentary that will not only elucidate and educate but also inspire and bring HOPE to what is, unquestionably, a tremendously dire situation for humanity.